From: dennis@made-it.com To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Subject: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 29-03-2002 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 06:30:56 +0100 Editorial 29 March 2002 Mailing lists GNUMail.app has reached version 1.0.0! Great work Ludovic Marcotte and everybody who helped him. Sometimes a little URL shows you some nice apps. That happened this week. Yen-Ju Chen send the URL of his homepage where we can find his PCRE wrappers for GNUstep, and curious as your editor is, he visited the link. To my suprise there where another two nice GNUstep applications which nobody knew about. So I would like to say: Visist this one [1]http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/GNUstep/english/. Ofcourse you can now also find them in the software section of gnustep.net. Code changes Nicola Pero changed the config.make.in. He added extensive comment about why we should not get AWK and SED from configuration, but simply define them to be 'awk' and 'sed'. Richard Frith-Macdonald more Windows stuff to handle sterr and processes better. And het added the NSZombie functionality. In gnustep-gui Gregory John Casamento added dictionary to NSOutlineView, Adam Fedor added a patch by Yen-Ju Chen to use new unicode functions for string conversion and he also made the biggest change of this week: the introduction of the new backend: gnustep-back. For this report I will quote a part of his e-mail: This is basically a revised xgps library broken up into better organized pieces (window server, device-independant graphics stack, xlib graphics stack). I've also revised the list of graphic operators (PS and DPS operators) to only include essential graphic operators that don't require stack handling (which we've never properly implemented anyway) plus a few more functions that provide some important behavior. This new set of graphic operators should also allow us to emulate Quartz functionality (at some point). And last update on gnustep-gui is the patch by Jeff Teunissen for NSWorkspace and the added Common_HomeDirectory.tiff. Great work! Since gnustep-xgps will become absolete in the near future I'll just report that Adam Fedor made the hacks to get xgps to work with new frontend server split. That leaves me for the GNUstep core with the code introduction of gnustep-back which was largely a code abstraction of xgps, with changes and introduction by Adam Fedor. Manuel Guesdon made gsweb comply more to the coding standards, while Gregory John Casamento and Pierre-Yves Rivaille worked their way through Gorm which has now support for GormNSTableView. Official GNUstep releases This is a new section in the editorial. From now on I will put in this sectrion the changes and updates of the official GNUstep applications. * GNUstep-GUI 0.7.6 * GNUstep XGPS backend 0.7.6 * Pantomime 1.0.2 * GNUMail.app 1.0.0 * GWorkspace 0.3.3 * ProjectCenter 0.3.0pre1 Happy Stepping, Dennis Leeuw References 1. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/GNUstep/english/