NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #35

David Strupl <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:52:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.announce
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Issue #35 - October 1, 2001
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Builds and releases:
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Our users are getting anxious about beta of the new 3.3 version
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159166&listName=nbusers

But our release coordinator has postponed creation of release33
branch once more. There are serious reasons for this step.
Please read full details and discussion here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=161250&listName=nbdev

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Modules changes
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Anyone interested in ANTLR (module)? As you can read in his
post Stephen Szalla will not have time to polish the code.
So any volunteers are welcomed!
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=162172&listName=nbdev

As the VCS support becomes more complex, there are more classes and profiles
XML files stored in vcsgeneric module. Martin Entlicher
would like to do some changes in the package structure and use more
appropriate package names. To read full details and
follow the discussion start here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=161167&listName=nbdev

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Discussions

A discussion about what to put into the IDE's start configuration
file was started by Gili in "DESIGN ISSUE: ide.cfg"
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159745&listName=nbdev

Yarda started discussion about whether it is a good practice to
store jar files in CVS repository.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159814&listName=nbdev

Is it intentional that the entries in context menus don't
have icons?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=161532&listName=nbui

Never ending shortcuts discussion continued on several lists. See
e.g.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=161346&listName=nbui

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