NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #106

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Issue #106 - Mar 10, 2003
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* TEGAL - Netbeans 3.5 release
The work on Netbeans Tegal release continues, the list of modules in
distribution should be final now, userdir name was updated, ...
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476303&listName=nbdev

Sun doesn't longer support the FastJavac; Netbeans support for this
compiler was moved to separate module and removed from both trunk and
Tegal distributions.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476304&listName=nbdev

'One still needs to use one's own judgment' when dealing with a11y bugs
in Tegal.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=478097&listName=nbdev

* Q-build
The Q-build candidate (#200303042350) have not passed the quality
criteria this week. See the report.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=478190&listName=nbdev
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200303042350.html

* nbui
After some initial discussion on nbdev Yarda posted his proposal about
Autoupdate improvements on nbui to get comments from UI folks. It
doesn't seem to get much attention yet.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=477940&listName=nbui

Who cares about the consistence of Netbeans UI? Do we have and do we
even need some authority which would control the consistency of Netbeans
UI? It seems we have such authority, but its work is somewhat hidden,
read more:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=479234&listName=nbui

* nbusers
Another discussion about the JVM settings and its effect on Netbeans
performance has been started by Scott, he is running Netbeans on PII
333Mhz with 512MB of RAM. Can't believe? Read more:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=479006&listName=nbusers

The neverending discussion about refactoring support in Netbeans and S1S
still continues the only thing which changes is the name of thread.
- Is this a feature in recent future?
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=478247&listName=nbusers
- Refactoring for NB dropped? IDEA a better choice?
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=478496&listName=nbusers
- Refactoring - wake up and smell the Java
    http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=479072&listName=nbusers

* nbdev
Some VMs could have problems with our "bytcode patching".
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476921&listName=nbdev

* openide-dev
Another company is interested in Netbeans Platform, but the question is
what are the minimum system requirements needed to run it?
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=479739&listName=dev

Are you curious how to generate property sheets dynamicaly in runtime.
Read this thread.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476887&listName=dev

* contributions
Gabriele Carcassi contributed a small module called editorBonuses. It
allows full screen editing (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F11 the current MDI
windows is maximized) and start command (on Windows, any file or
directory is opened with the associated application). If you are
interested just try it:
http://contrib.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList?action=download&dlID=302

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