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GNUstep Weekly Editorial 22-03-2002
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GNUstep Weekly Editorial 22-03-2002 |
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:40:57 +0100 |
Editorial 22 March 2002
The most important announcement this week came just after the last
editorial. The initial launch of the GNUstep developers release. And
we start off with version 1.3.0 for gnustep-make and gnustep-base.
So we now have a 'stable'-tree and an 'unstable'-tree and we have CVS
and it's daily snapshots. What more reasons do you need to try
GNUstep!
Why would one use unstable? For this release I would say, if you want
GNUstep on Windows and you don't want CVS, go with the developers
release.
Mailing lists
The Apple patches against gcc3 saga continues. Stan Shebs from Apple
send in some patches for gcc3 to better handle compiling on GNU/Linux,
with thanks to Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf for forwarding the message to
the GNUstep list.
Ludovic Marcotte is planning on the release of GNUmail.app 1.0.0
And then a nice long thread went on after Adam proposed a change in
the GNUstep backend structure. His idea is to split the backend in a
windowing server and a graphics system, since for graphics all kinds
of libraries can be used, while the windowing system is more or less a
static feature. As one might have expected when it comes down to
choosing which graphics library should be supported first, the
discussion went on...
Code changes
Nicola Pero provided the gnustep-make package with a new handy script
called GNUstep-reset.sh, which resets all things set by GNUstep.sh. He
also created the ability to provide before-$(GNUSTEP_INSTANCE)-install
and after-$(GNUSTEP_INSTANCE)-install. Richard Frith-Macdonald added
more cygwin support.
Richard Frith-Macdonald made my life easier for the changes in
gnustep-base. I can now just do copy-and-paste. Here it goes:
Rewritten low level support for different character encodings ...
should provide more efficient and maintainable conversion between
encodings and permit use of wide character encodings and encodings
with multibyte sequences as the default C string encoding. Testing ...
minimal ... we could do with decent tests for this stuff. So this
version must be viewed as possibly very unstable!
And he made gdnc and gdomap run as daemons under Windows.
In gnustep-gui Pierre-Yves Rivaille created initial drag'n'drop
support fo NSTableView and NSOutlineView. Adam applied a patch from
Yen-Ju Chen to handle big5 encoding.
Happy Stepping,
Dennis Leeuw
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