Re: Are there updates for NetBeans 5.0?

Hello Jirka,

thanks for that information. I can image that producing a maintenance 
releases is a lot of work. I fear that I have neither the necessary 
"resources" nor the necessary "insight" to coordinate such an endeavor.

I was not able to use the Subversion module under NetBeans 5.0. 
Sometimes messages popped up that had to be accepted by clicking "ok". 
These messages popped up again, before any other action could be taken. 
The only possibility was "killing" the NetBeans process. In addition, an 
annoying thing with NetBeans 5.0 was that the tab title of the files in 
the editor contain their VCS state. Because of this rather lengthy 
information only very few tabs where visible.

I am going to try NetBeans 5.5 beta 2. If the SVN problem still exists I 
will send a bug report.

Regards,
-Stefan

PS: Working with NetBeans for a long time (since 1999), I had the 
impression that the Update Center has been used to deliver bug fixes to 
the community (in particular the "HotFix Update Center").

Jiri Kovalsky wrote:
> Hello Stefan,
>
>   what areas exactly did you find NetBeans 5.0 less stable than 4.1 ? 
> It's true that no update of 5.0 was published except the Matisse 
> Update Pack which is available via NetBeans 5.0 AUC Beta. More info: 
> http://form.netbeans.org/roadmap.html#JavaOne_2006
>
>   To be honest producing dot-dot releases is practice used very 
> rarely. Do you remember 3.4.1 release 
> (http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/34/1/README.html)? It was 
> purely community effort organized by one of NetBeans contibutors Maxym 
> Mykhalchuk. Would you volunteer to coordinate similar thing? I am sure 
> couple of more guys would join you.
>
>   If not, I suggest you wait for NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 coming next week 
> that will have 300+ <=5.0 bugs fixed. See here: 
> http://www.netbeans.org/issues/buglist.cgi?Submit+query=Submit+query&issue_type=DEFECT&issue_status=RESOLVED&issue_status=VERIFIED&issue_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&version=3.1&version=3.2&version=3.2.1&version=3.3&version=3.3+dev&version=3.3.1&version=3.3.1+dev&version=3.3.2&version=3.4&version=3.4+dev&version=3.4.1&version=3.5&version=3.5.1&version=3.6&version=4.0&version=4.1&version=5.0&version=5.0u1&version=5.0u2&target_milestone=5.5 
>
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> -Jirka
>
> Stefan Wachter wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a long time ago I installed the January 2006 release of NetBeans 5.0. 
>> After some trials I found the IE too buggy to use (under Linux) and 
>> switched back to NetBeans 4.1. Now, about half a year later, I wanted 
>> to give NetBeans 5.0 a second chance, but did not find a maintainance 
>> release of NetBeans 5.0 and also the Update center does not show 
>> anything of interest.
>>
>> Is it true that none of the several thousand issues with NetBeans 5.0 
>> has been fixed and is available in a new release?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Stefan
>
>