NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #136

-----------------------------------------------------------------
NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #136 - Oct 07, 2003
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2003-10-07.html
Interested in becoming a newsletter editor ?  We're always looking
for editors to help out - contact [email protected]
Please send news contributions to [email protected]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
/**nbusers*/

Are you interested in some useful tips on how to count the number of
lines in a project ? The community discussed two approaches. The 
first one based on usage of (platform dependent) tools outside 
NetBeans and the second one based on NetBeans modules with
a capability to measure metrics (RefactorIT). 

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=591319&listName=nbusers

Some users were confused how to set up userdir and asked if there is
a related Windows registry key. The task can be simply solved by 
editing config file. See the following contribution to get more 
details on this topic.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=592116&listName=nbusers

Do we need CVS Connection Manager (a GUI for convenient maintaining 
of .cvspass files) in our product or shall we remove it ? Are there 
any users of this feature ?

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=591406&listName=nbusers

/**nbannounce*/

Read an announcement on Netbeans Joint Copyright Assignment.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=591978&listName=nbannounce

/**nbdev*/

The Wednesday's nightly build (#200310010100) has been promoted as a
Q-build. The test report can be found at

http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200310010100.html

Yarda Tulach is going to merge another part of separation of 
openide. It concerns lib/openide.jar file which will be replaced in 
the resulting build by a bunch of lib/openide-*.jar files.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=592482&listName=nbdev

Petr Hrebejk plans a change related to looks (namely to 
lookSelectors). This is the first change from the set of changes
required by the team working on Projects and it resolves some 
issues. Follow the link for more details.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=590244&listName=nbdev

Are you doing performance/footprint work, or looking for memory 
leaks ? You can find useful a new tool that was contributed by 
Petr Nejedly. It is available at: 
http://performance.netbeans.org/insane/ 
See also the announcement.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=590857&listName=nbdev

/**nbui*/

Svata Dedic has started a discussion regarding terminology: He asks
why a collection of projects, that make up the software system the 
user  is developing is called "A portfolio" and argues that the 
other products use terminology more common for task.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=592025&listName=nbui


-----------------------------------------------------------------
This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was instantiated by Daniel Prusa.
Next week issue's chief editor will be David Kaspar.
-----------------------------------------------------------------