GNUstep weekly update

[Adam Fedor]

See http://www.gnustep.org

Week ending 22 April 2001

gnustep-base (Foundation)


Code optimisations have been made to dramatically speed up
handling of the contents of directories.
Various minor bugs have been fixed - including a couple of memory 
leaks.
New memory management debugging functions have been added (and 
documented).
The NSTask class has been fully documented.



gnustep-gui (GUI frontend library)


Some bugs have been fixed in color handling - it's now quite easy to 
change
the colors in which the GUI is drawn.  For instance, using the command
defaults write NSGlobalDomain controlBackgroundColor '0 0 1' causes
controls to have their normal background drawn in blue (the color is 
specified as
red, green, and blue components, each from 0.0 to 1.0).NB. While the 
NSColor
documentation is skeletal, it does list the names of the system colors 
you can
set.
A problem was fixed in services - an application can now provide 
services
to itsself.  For those who don't know, the 'Services' menu in a GNUstep 
application
lists the services provided by other GNUstep applications and tools, and 
choosing
an item from this menu will get a service performed using the currently 
selected
item (if any) as input, and replacing it with the service output (if 
any).
A few other bugs have been fixed of course



gnustep-make (Makefiles package)


Various minor fixes
Fixes for reliable RPM generation.



gnustep-test (Regression tests)


Simplified a little - tools to link GNUstep with Guile removed



gnustep-guile (Guile language interface)


Added tool to run a Guile interpreter linked to the GNUstep base 
library