NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #13

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Issue #13 - April 30, 2001
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Hot News

     - The NetBeans 3.2 release story continues and it was very
       dramatic, here is what was happening.
       Monday   - Some P1 bugs were filed therefore on
       Tuesday  - Petr Hrebejk, the release co-ordinator, comes with the

                        list of proposed fixes for RC4
                        http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06201.html
                        and then on
       Thursday - Petr officially announces that there will be RC4
                        http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06293.html

       So now you can download the NetBeans 3.2 Realize Candidate 4 from

       http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html

New Contributions

     - Will Wilson contributed  his first version of a generic archive
       support module for NetBeans.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00052.html

     - A new contribution to the NetBeans community was made by Idoox
       releasing its WASP Tools 1.1
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00053.html

Proposals

     - Jan Chalupa proposes guidelines for bug-handling issues in
       Issuezilaa
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06307.html

     - Tomas Pavek publishes the first draft of new features in the Form

       Editor for the 3.3 release
       http://form.netbeans.org/doc/IssuesAndToDo.html.

     - David Strupl proposes changes in property sheet implementation
       (for 3.3)
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06267.html

Interesting Discussions

     - Yarda Tulach starts to debate about synchronization issues
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06300.html

     - Ales Kemr announced a patch for RC4 and the following thread
       shows how it is decided if something should go to NetBeans 3.2 or

       3.3
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06200.html

     - The NetBeans community is very helpful check the following
        threads for the support the users get with their problems
       On Debugger - http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06486.html

       Generic Version Control - first
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06111.html
       17 messages later!  -  last
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06633.html

     - Almost two weeks ago Peter Zavadsky wrote "I'd like to change the

       search open API completely and need to discuss it."
       http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg01937.html
       This week the discussion continues
                  Yarda asks four questions on monday
                  http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg01978.html
                  Petr Hrebejk asks two more on friday
                  http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg02087.html
            Let's wait for the answers...

What's new on the NetBeans Web Site

     - Hey guess what, we just added another platform on which you can
       run NetBeans
       http://www.netbeans.org/articles/screenshots.html#hpux

     - Do you want to find out what are other companies doing with
       NetBeans?
       You can find out all of the information on the new "Who is
       building on top of NetBeans" page, which is at:
       http://www.netbeans.org/ontop_nb.html

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