NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #14

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Issue #14 - May 7, 2001 
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-05-07.html

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Hot News

     - NetBeans 3.2 has been released on Monday. Exactly on the day we 
       promised four months ago.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbannounce/msg00033.html
       
     - Later on Monday we have found that the 3.2 not only does not run
       on forthcoming JDK1.4 (we knew that for ages) but also does not 
       compile because of fundamental problem
       http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg02105.html
       
     - That is why Petr Hrebejk, the release co-ordinator decided to 
       release an update on Friday. Exactly four days after the release
       date we agreed on four months ago.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbannounce/msg00034.html

     - If you have not done so, please visit our download page and give
       the NetBeans 3.2 Release a try
       http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html

New Contributions

     - Jeff Keyser updated its JavaDoc HTTP filesystem and Petr Suchomel
       is working on its integration into JavaDoc module source base.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00055.html
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06406.html

Proposals

     - Jan Chalupa finished the changes he proposed in bug handling.
       As a result one hundred twenty new messages appeared in my
       mailbox over the weekend
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06455.html

     - I guess that Jan's suggestions should be followed, which can
       be hard without reading the proposal. Find it at
       http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/bug-handling-guidelines.html
       
     - Module authors offering API to other modules, should notice
       resurrected discussion about Jesse's API versioning guidelines.
       The sooner the better, because in spite of the word
       "backward-compatibility" starts with "backward" one has to
       think about it in advance.
       http://openide.netbeans.org/versioning-policy.html
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06445.html
       
Discussions, tips and tricks

     - Is your text editor printing different characters then you 
       are typing when using some strange keyboard? Please help us by 
       finding whether this is a bug of JDK or of our editor. 
       Let Mila's message guide you
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06833.html

     - Thanks to Jesse explaining me and others how to recover my 
       settings and get the missing indentation engines back. 
       I am so happy that my Enter indents again.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06865.html

     - As usually people had asked why NetBeans have such poor 
       implementation of projects, not suitable at all for team 
       development. As usually we had to answer that we are working 
       on it and NetBeans 3.3 will have the best implementation of 
       project management one has ever seen.
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06786.html

     - Problems running NetBeans on RedHat 7.1? You are not alone 
       and NetBeans are not the only java application that does 
       not run. The problem is between Java and RH7.1
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06849.html
       
     - The easiest way to lower the amount of memory NetBeans use 
       is to disable modules that you do not use. If you think 
       memory consumption is your problem follow suggestion in
       http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06848.html
       
     
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