[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ 2.2.0 feature preview release

[Todd O'Bryan]

Is the interface to the versioning system exposed so that someone  
could write an extension to add subversion support? JavaSVN is a pure  
Java interface to subversion. My guess is that you don't want to  
include it with BlueJ because of the open source issues, but you (or  
someone else) could distribute an extension using it without much  
problem, I'd think.

Todd

On Nov 3, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Bruce Quig wrote:

> 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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