NetBeans Weekly News #78

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Issue #78 - August 13, 2002
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  * Builds

RC 2 candidate was made on Friday, but did not pass. See the full report:
<http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/RC2-build-report-200208082340.html>

RC 1 is still available for download at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html>



  * News

We are looking for NetBeans codename. Thanks to Maxym Mykhalchuk you
can vote now, so -- vote!
<http://translatedfiles.netbeans.org/rcn.html>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=364166&listName=nbusers>


Developers, the 3.4 Open APIs are published, see:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/>
See also:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361167&listName=dev>



  * Discussions

Do we have clear and equal conditions for non-Sun module developers?
Really important topic, brought up by Libor Kramolis.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=360522&listName=nbdiscuss>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=363294&listName=nbdiscuss>


Should we give up jdk1.3 and start to build with jdk1.4 now? Discussion
is going on, but there's still no conclusion.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361961&listName=nbdiscuss>


Do you miss a quick way to toggle source editor to full screen mode?
Then vote for issue #26321:
<http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26321>
See also:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361213&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361346&listName=nbusers>


Is it possible to do "back step" in debugger? And is it possible in
NetBeans 3.4? Follow the "Debugger - back step" thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362059&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362524&listName=nbusers>


Do you want to change standard workspace background in NetBeans?
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361846&listName=nbui>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=363589&listName=nbui>


Martin Entlicher started interesting discussion about grabbing focus after long-time
operations perform (like compilation or cvs diff).
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361746&listName=nbui>


Neverending discussion about 'x' close button on tabs continues... :-)
...
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=360393&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=361625&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362454&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362456&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362945&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362946&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362966&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=362986&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=363171&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=363612&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=363646&listName=nbusers>
...


What's happened to nbdev archive?
Unfortunately, nbdev mail archive ends up on Aug 1st (for some reason),
so no news from nbdev... I'm sorry, because I know you would be certainly
interested e.g. in new features in NetBeans build system, problems around
providing new language support for NetBeans, continuing discussion about
multi-threaded programming in NetBeans, reopened Options system redesign
issue, how documenting -J-D flags is going on, etc. Hopefully, this will
be covered by the next newsletter.

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