Weekly Update

From:	 Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>
To:	 GNUstep Info <info-gnustep-just1@gnu.org>
Subject: Weekly Update
Date:	 Sun, 13 May 2001 19:53:57 -0600

See http://www.gnustep.org for more details.

gnustep-base (Foundation)

As usual, a considerable amount of tidying up and fixing for portability has been done, in particular the archive format has been fixed for portability between machines where the 'char' datatype has different signedness.
The NSAutoreleasePool class has been documented, including the GNUstep extensions.
The old OpenStep format property-lists now handle unicode characters using a \U escape sequence ... another step towards the code being fully internationalised

gnustep-gui (GUI frontend library)

There have been many varied bugfixes made.
There have been some drawing optimisations made.
Work has been done on the fonts code and drawing of text in general, in an attempt to ensure that text drawing is handled consistently through a single API.

gnustep-xdps (GUI back end library)

gnustep-xgps (GUI back end library)

gnustep-make (Makefiles package)

As usual, a number of fixes have been made ... for cross-platform portability and for Java

JIGS (Java language interface)

GNUstep-Guile (Guile language interface)

tests (Regression testing package)

Gorm (Interface Builder clone)

Raphael Sebbe contributed code to support custom objects, which makes it possible to connect objects written by you to standard GNUstep objects.
Validation of view frames during editing has also been added - this stops you accidentally doing things like dragging a view to a size where it's contents can't be displayed.