Re: Introducing myself as new developer and TN5250j rpject changes

Martin W. Kirst schrieb:
> Hi there,

Hi Martin,

> thanks to Kenneth for adding me to the project's developer list.
> As I wrote in my application, I want do import some changes/patches
> to the TN5250j project.

Great!

> These are my first three wishes/steps:
>  - Declare as an Eclipse project
>    Therefore some meta data files (one or two XMLs) are created
>    I think, Eclipse is very popular, so we can do so.
>    Netbeans users are able to import/work with eclipse projects.

+1

>  - Switch to Java6 to use some nice features
>    remember: Java5 is now in "End of life" transition period
>    and will complete in Oct.2009

I'm with Pete here, keeping Java5 support for some time.
Which Java6 features do you have in Mind?


>  - Reorganize project's layout to be a 'modern' Eclipse based project.
>    Unfortunately some histories will be broken, cause CVS doesn't
>    support renaming (afaik). I will do my best to make this
>    renaming understandable by putting comments in.

What about moving to svn first?
See http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sitedocs/wiki/Subversion

> If nobody has some objections/critics,
> I will do so at the end of this week.
> 
> PS: In the meantime I put some effort in the SSL support and
> tab management. I removed the meaningless gree/blue bubbles
> and put a yellow lock in, similar to SSL connections in your browser.
> I think it looks great ;-)

I'm happy to test it after your commit ;-)
-- 
Christian


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