NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #38

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Issue #38 - October 22, 2001
URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-10-22.html> 

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All development efforts go to bug fixing for NetBeans 3.3 release.  The
bad news is that the bug count is still high.  The good news is that
we've finally reached the state when the IDE is ready for the first
beta.  See Petr Hamernik's post on nbdev

  Subj: [nbdev] [nb 3.3] status update (beta1, today Q-build, etc.)
  URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=172136&listName=nbdev>

    
Core developers are putting together the upgrade guide for module
developers who want to make sure their existing code will work smoothly
and take benefit of all the new improvements in the platform in 3.3
release.  The first draft of the guide is already available and is being
reviewed on openide-dev mailing list at this moment.

  Subj: [openide-dev] Draft of 3.2 -> 3.3 upgrade guide
  URL: <http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=169860&listName=dev>

    
People are building interesting applications on top of the NetBeans
platform.  Oftentimes those applications even have nothing to do with
the IDE.  To learn more about what can be built read an interview with
James MacGill

  "James MacGill interview"
  URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/articles/interviews/>


After a mini-flame about signatures of two methods in OpenAPIs died down
(with an agreed upon solution) Evan Adams posted some observations.  He
is tinkering with an idea of the NetBeans Architecture Council.  Expect
the discussion will continue.
 
  Subj: Re: [openide-dev] XMLUtil.toXXX throws IOException
  URL: <http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=171351&listName=dev>


There is a proposal to drop the guarantee of "buildability" of NetBeans
source code using ant 1.3.  In other words in the future we may require
ant 1.4 to be used to build NetBeans

  Subj: [nbdev] should we require ant 1.4.x to build NetBeans?
  URL: <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=171271&listName=nbdev>

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