From: dennis@made-it.com To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Subject: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 01-03-2002 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 06:51:40 +0100 Welcome Welcome to the GNUstep Community website. As with every community there are some shared interests and some common goals. The interest part is [1]GNUstep, the best Object Oriented development environment around, and the goal is world domination. For world domination we need software and documentation and that is what this site is about. Editorial 1 March 2002 Have you all seen the new layout of the GNUstep web-site (http://www.gnustep.org). It's cool. Nice work Philippe C.D. Robert. Mailing lists The most suprising thing to me is the current efforts of writting a "e;real"e; GNUstep window manager. Let's see which one will become the default; WOOM or Interface. And speaking about duplicating work: On the distribution front there is another distribution for GNUstep coming. First we had SimpleGNUstep by Chad Hardin and no we also have LinuxSTEP. Apparently there are some ithches that other distribution makers do not seem to scratch... Stefan Böhringer is preparing an article for the German C't magazine Richard mentioned that he has gnustep-base working on Windows XP using MingW Code changes Nicola Pero went on with the changes in gnustep-make. A lot has changed. And the File System Hierarchy discussion on the mailinglist has resulted in the change of the Apps directory in Applications. Richard Frith-Macdonald added a lot of changes to make gnustep-base to happy it on MingW, while Adam Fedor added NeXT and Darwin objc header compatibility. Write once compile everywhere is a bit closer Nicola applied a lot of patches send in by people to gnustep-gui, most notably those send in by Alexander Malmberg. He also rewrote the keybinding engine to be a full blown keybinding engine. Pierre-Yves Rivaille added support for Scroller mice. Great! Fred Kiefer, Adam Fedor and Willem Rein Oudshoorn all had their hands in gnustep-gui and gnustep-xgps to clean up the code, add functionality and make overall life much easier. Happy Stepping, Dennis Leeuw References 1. http://www.gnustep.org/