From: dennis@made-it.com To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Subject: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 07-12-2001 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:21:26 +0100 Editorial 07 December 2001 The mailing-lists Nicola Pero proposed a new setup for the Makefile achitecture, which was an idea of Helge Hess. Looks very promising Once in a while the discussion pops up, about GNUstep and it's ties to Window Maker and this week it happened again. And I think Adam Fedor gave the ultimate answer, so to quote him: "No matter what WM we work with (even if it's written in ObjC) we'll most likely communicate using X protocols. The ones Window Maker has are pretty good, and some other, even more standard ones are being developed. It's more than feasible that GNUstep can do everything it wants using the protocols that are already in place." Code changes Nicola Pero: bundle.make (internal-bundle-install): Use h option with tar to dereference symbolic links to external files if any; use --exclude Contents/Resources with tar; create the Contents/Resources --> Resources link manually after installing the bundle with tar. He is also responsible for the redisplay handling after the color is changed on the background or text. Richard Frith-Macdonald did a lot of work this week on the base library. First of all the on the mailinglist mentioned shift of SSL support to a bundle, but also a lot of optimizations and bugfixes. Applications Laurent Julliard added Date and Number Formatters to Gorm. Documentation Dennis Leeuw added the HTML version of the Defaults Summary to the Defaults document