NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #29

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Issue #29 - August 20, 2001
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Builds and releases:
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The final release of NetBeans 3.2.1 is planed for this Wednesday.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143154&listName=nbdev>

At the same tame we have just few days to NetBeans 3.3 feature freeze.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=141662&listName=nbdev>

How many editions of NetBeans should exists and which modules they
should contain, please speak up.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143031&listName=nbdiscuss>

After five weeks we finally have a Q-build. 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143074&listName=nbdev>
But to be honest it probably should be marked rather a q-build than
Q-build. Some people suggest various changes to the Q-build process to
be able to produce Q-builds. The main goal of Q-builds i.e. providing
usable builds for developers to work in them and report bugs valid and
important.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143253&listName=nbdev>

There is a nice example of using NetBeans as a platform for other
application than IDEs and development tools. This particular one is
about mining. And I don't mean data mining. 
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=141044&listName=dev>
It seems that more and more people are using the OpenAPIs a base for
their applications. What consequences could it have for the OpenIDE?:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=142829&listName=dev>


Development:
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Jesse suggests getting rid of the first start of the IDE in the build
process. Agree with him that the first start is: "kind of annoying".
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143305&listName=nbdev>

Petr Kuzel checked in first version of declarative MIME Type resolver.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=142475&listName=nbdev>

If you are interested in how the XML version of the editor options will
look like then look at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=142299&listName=nbdev>

The performance effort continues. Are you interested what is faster
1.3.1 or 1.4. Look at results of the competition:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143187&listName=nbdev>

The discussion about better organization of options is still alive and
vital
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=142464&listName=nbui>

Contributions and Ideas:
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Interesting new modules were contributed by Sun, XEmacs/Vim/Other Editor
Integration and Basic C/C++/Fortran Development Support
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143110&listName=nbdev>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=143117&listName=nbdev>

Maybe we will have new module for PL/SQL debugging and execution:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=141235&listName=nbdev>

Would you like easier access to information about various modules on the
NetBeans web page? Look at the draft of module catalogue and send your
ideas.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=141419&listName=nbdiscuss>

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