GNUstep Weekly Editorial 08-09-2002

[dennis]

                             Editorial 8 sept 2002
                                       
   After a very hectic time and a holiday, I am trying to get the
   editorial back on line, not time ;)
   
   This is a very minimal version that covers about two months.
   
Mailing lists

   Too much to mention. See the Code changes and the updates.
   
Code changes

   A lot of Mac OS X and darwin compatebility was added.
   GNUstep now needs libxml 2.3.0 or higher
   NSToolbar was added by Gregory John Casamento to gnustep-gui
   Adam Fedor and Enrico Sersale added NSSound and the gsnd tool. GNUstep
   now needs the autofile library.
   back-art backend from Alexander Malmber is now officially part of the
   gnuste-back code. It depends on libart and freetype
   
Official GNUstep releases

   This section mentions the this week released versions of the official
   GNUstep parts.
     * unstable: gnustep-make-1.5.0
     * unstable: gnustep-base-1.5.0
     * unstable: gnustep-gui-0.8.1
     * unstable: gnustep-back-0.8.1
     * stable: gnustep-make-1.4.0
     * stable: gnustep-base-1.4.1
     * stable: gnustep-gui-0.8.0
     * stable: gnustep-back-0.8.0
     * nib2gmodel 0.8.0
     * Pantomime 1.0.5
     * GNUMail.app 1.0.3
       
Hot news

   2002 Aug 02
   Andy Ruder released netclasses 0.96
   2002 Aug 06
   Stéphane Peron released Encod.app 0.2
   2002 Aug 15
   Yen-Ju Chen released MusicBox 0.2.4
   2002 Aug 16
   Banlu Kemiyatorn released MyT68 version 0.1.0
   2002 Aug 27
   Adam Fedor released the gdb Objective-C language patch 2002 Aug 30
   David Wetzel started GSWMonitor for GNUStep Web
   2002 Sept 4
   Björn Gohla released Popup.app 0.3
   
   Happy Stepping,
   Dennis Leeuw