NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #101

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Issue #101 - Feb 03, 2003
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*nbdiscuss*

Trung announced proposal of changes to the current NetBeans release 
schedule:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=457538&listName=nbdiscuss

There was a suggestion to make the NB newsgroups "public" (ie carried by 
any public news server, indexed and searchable by major NNTP search 
tools). But it seems that spam would be a problem. What do you think?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=455653&listName=nbdiscuss

*Build*

Q-build was not promoted yet. See details in preliminary report:
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200301290100.html

*nbdev*

Web archive is broken , more info about this issue at:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30541

Briefly:
- Discussion about the core/naming module continues. After all, it won't 
be added into the main trunk now.
- Mentioned discussion has also a descendant in the thread: "cyclic code 
dependencies"
- Discussion about wrapping in the output window: "Output window 
word-wrap?"

*nbui*

Sukie from China sent us "Happy New Year" greeting. Thanks Sukie!
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=455965&listName=nbui

There started discussion about  "Compile/build actions on folder node". 
It has been noticed by Jiri Skrivanek that they are available again. 
Great Jiri!
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456367&listName=nbui

Second part of discussion about "Tab proliferation" continues. For more 
details look at:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456886&listName=nbui

*nbusers*

In case you want to see the output of the NetBeans app itself on Win 
XP/2000 read this thread:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=455702&listName=nbusers
or read your "%YOUR_USER_DIRECTORY%\system\ide.log"

Maxym helps with looking for lost 'Options' menu item. More details at:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=454724&listName=nbusers
and
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=455780&listName=nbusers

Mato adviced how to update Completion Database. More useful details at:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456075&listName=nbusers

Want you know about NetBeans rogue CPU usage? Read carefully:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=455734&listName=nbusers

It looks that Daniel had really terrible time. He has problem with IDE 
hanging. Read complete story at:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456162&listName=nbusers

Our installer vs. jdk1.4.1 looks like serious problem. We should rebuild 
3.4 installer to work correctly on jdk1.4.1. Read:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456566&listName=nbusers

There is new thread about how to select default JSDK started by Patrick 
Gelin. More details at:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=456652&listName=nbusers


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