[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ 2.2.0 feature preview release

[Bruce Quig]

No, the interface is not suitably exposed to the Extension API to  
enable this at the moment.

Bruce




On 05/11/2006, at 2:30 AM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> 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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