NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #88

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Issue #88 - Oct 21, 2002

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<nbdev>

Future direction for ANTLR

A hot topic this week was what to do with the ANTLR module brought
up by Brian Smith. There now seems a need for an autoload module for the
ANTLR libraries, along with general upgrading of the code to nb3.4+ standards.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=390267&listName=nbdev

New VCS APIs !!

Check 'em out! Module developers are encouraged to get involved with
the new api.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=391825&listName=nbdev

This also raised questions about the Built-In CVS and how it will
work with the new Projects module.

Will the JavaCVS be a complete rewrite or be a profile in the VCSGeneric
module?

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=393851&listName=nbdev

Compiler and Execution API

The discussion about Compiler and Execution API continued with suggestions
on how to remove or deprecate them from openide.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=392070&listName=nbdev

2Bean or not 2Bean...

The discussion brought up by Trung about the possible performance
hit used by too general PropertyListeners continued.

A few developers requested some real performance numbers, was the
effort to change the code going to be of great benefit.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=385891&listName=nbdev

No Q-Build :-(

See the report:

http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200210160100.html

Failed because of just one show stopper:

http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28031

</nbdev>

<openide>

TreeTableView and Customising Explorers

A few developers were getting their teeth stuck into the TreeTableView...

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=390247&listName=dev

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=391189&listName=dev

Peak hour on thursday afternoon/friday morning

Openide (and nbdev) got a boost in traffic when Jesse Glick returned
from his travels late this week, obviously well rested and ready to attack
all the threads on offer . Great stuff!

There was also a bit of confusion this week for NNTP users as a number
of threads got jumbled.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=391486&listName=dev

Take care when posting new a thread to compose a new msg, not to
reply and just change the subject line.

</openide>

<nbusers>

Board Elections closed

The final week for elections, and the votes will be counted...

Who will govern the new board?

How many turned up to the voting booths? Lets hope more than last
time.

http://www.netbeans.org

</nbusers>

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