[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ 2.2.0 feature preview release

[Bruce Quig]

It is our aim to also support Subversion in the future, however it  
will not be in the initial release.

We have attempted to design the implementation so that we could  
support subversion as well at a later date as seamlessly as possible.

Subversion is certainly becoming more popular as time goes on, and  
fixes a number of CVS limitations. Our initial target however was CVS  
due to its widespread usage and availability. Subversion fixes some  
technical issues but raises some licensing, configuration and  
distribution issues that need to be addressed to keep Bluej  
installation, configuration and usage as easy as possible for users.

I cannot give a time frame for this at the moment though on when  
Subversion support will be added. Whilst we have tried to make the  
addition of Subversion support at a later date as easy as possible,  
it is still a non-trivial issue.

Bruce

On 04/11/2006, at 3:31 AM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> How hard would it be to include Subversion support? I just ported  
> all my
> old CVS repositories over...
>
> Todd
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:04 +1100, Bruce Quig wrote:
>> Dear BlueJ Users,
>>
>> The BlueJ Team is pleased to announce the availability of a feature
>> preview release of BlueJ 2.2.0.
>>
>> The main new feature that we have planned for version 2.2.0 is the
>> addition of teamwork support. It supports team programming by adding
>> version control functionality, allowing students to work in teams on
>> projects where their projects can be stored in a central repository.
>> The initial version supports team projects using CVS as the version
>> control system.
>>
>> This initial feature preview has been released to allow interested
>> users to get a preview of the additional functionality that version
>> 2.2.0 will possess, and to provide feedback on functionality and
>> possible problems in a wide variety of software infrastructures.
>>
>> Whilst all BlueJ users are welcome to download and try out this
>> preview version. the target audience is teachers and other users who
>> have an interest in these new features specifically. To make use of
>> the teamwork features it will be necessary to have access to a
>> suitably configured CVS repository. We encourage and appreciate
>> feedback on the features provided.
>>
>> Students who are currently using BlueJ in their studies should
>> continue to use the stable release 2.1.3 as their preferred version.
>>
>> The preview release can be downloaded from:
>>
>> http://www.bluej.org/download/files/bluejsetup-220preview.exe
>> (Windows)
>> http://www.bluej.org/download/files/bluej-220preview.jar
>> (Unix/Linux)
>> http://www.bluej.org/download/files/BlueJ-220preview.zip
>> (Mac)
>>
>> There is also some basic documentation to get started. These are
>> fairly brief guides aimed at those with some prior version control
>> experience. For the final release we will extend these further to be
>> more suitable to students and other end users.
>>
>> The two documents are :
>>
>> Quick howto/tutorial of the main features:
>> http://www.bluej.org/download/files/teamwork-tutorial.pdf
>>
>> A guide to setting up cvs repositories, both single user and for
>> group repositories:
>> http://www.bluej.org/download/files/repository-setup.pdf
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bruce Quig, on behalf of the BlueJ Team.
>>
>>
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