NetBeans Weekly News Issue #31

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Issue #31 - September 3, 2001
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Builds and releases:
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Excerpts from mail by our release coordinator Petr Hamernik:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=147382&listName=nbdev

"It means that feature freeze for the
features listed above will happen on next Friday Sep/7, all other
features are frozen today. We should also postpone all other dates
in the schedule - so the first beta will be on Sep/12 and Release
would be on Oct/24 then (one week later).
So, this postpone will give all other developers one more week
for bug fixing, which is good I think!
<snip/>
Branch 'release33' :

As discussed on nbdev, nobody complained about postponing making
the 'relase33' branch 3 weeks after feature freeze - let's say
Sep/28. Is this date ok for everyone? It means that until Sep/28
developers should not integrate NB 3.4 or 4.0 features into trunk.

Short notice which might have big impact on building process
by Jesse Glick:
Should we get rid of the first start? Yes?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=146439&listName=nbdev

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Modules changes
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After some discussion it was agreed that the Ant module in NetBeans 3.3
will use newer version of ant (Ant 1.4).
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=147706&listName=nbdev

Object browser is moving from distribution to the auto update center:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=148790&listName=nbdev

New module created for Mila. Lexer module project created:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=147226&listName=nbdev

Looks: Petr Hrebejk has just merged the new implementation of looks
from the looks_development branch. Please notice that this API is
still under development and that it may and will change in the future.
We only plan to use it for the new ObjectBrowser module (called
FreestyleBrowser) which will be experimental module in 3.3. We don't
plan any other usage of the Looks in 3.3 right now.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=146279&listName=dev

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Discussions

After open sourcing the Database Explorer module there was a discussion
how should this project be called. It finally led to the conclusion that
the contributed module will stay to be called db while work will start
on a new module not called by a two letter abbreviation.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=147456&listName=nbdev

After changing shortcuts by the UI team
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=146318&listName=nbdev
there was quite strong concern about the new shortcuts. The shortcuts
discussion is still alive on both nbdev and nbui lists.

Petr Hrebejk proposed to use XML instead of beaninfo classes. He's got
quite warm response to this idea especially from the performance guys.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=148771&listName=nbdev

There was some discussion about creation of new folders. The thread was
started by Jano Rojcek on openide-dev
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=147275&listName=dev

Q-build discussions are floating through all the mailing lists -
fueled by several interested folks - Emmanuel van der Meulen, Evan Adams,
Jan Chalupa and others. See e.g.:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=148339&listName=nbusers

Tools-Options discussion hopefully lead to a conclusion how
will this important dialog look like
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=148470&listName=nbui

Quite long discussion about new colors is still occupying people
on nbui:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=146712&listName=nbui

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