From: root@master01.made-it.com To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Subject: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 21-02-2002 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:25:26 +0100 Editorial 21 February 2002 After a month of no editorials I am back. Since I missed the FOSDEM event, nothing about that in this editorial, but I hope everybody who was there had a great time. To my surprise things are going really fast in the GNUstep world. In a month time more applications have appeared then ever before. This shows the stability and the easy of use of the GNUstep environment. The development applications GORM and ProjectCenter are rapidly maturing and with helper applications like CodeEditor and EasyDiff, creating applications becomes a breeze. Next to that we see the evolution of the desktop applications with ofcourse GWorkspace and GNUMail.app, but also with the beautiful Preferences.app, Affiche, ImageViewer and the newsreader LuserNET.app A month away in such a rapidly growing environment would result in a hughe overview of things that changed in the GNUstep code and stuff discussed on the mailinglists. So for this week the mailinglist discussion is skipped and we concentrate on the code changes that really make a difference. Please also visit http://www.gnustep.net/ for a complete overview in the news section about the new versions available of your favorite GNUstep application. Code changes Nicola Pero rewrote the internals of gnustep-make to greatly simplify this package. Richard Frith-Macdonald, Nicola Pero, Michael Hanni and a lot of patch senders greatly improved the code of gnustep-base. One important note on the documentation of GNUstep-base, by Richard: Documentation/manual: New directory containing Objective-C and GNUstep-base programming manual/tutorial produced at Brainstorm. The intention was to produce a pretty complete manual and then release it, but we ran out of funding, so I'm releasing the work to date. Anyone willing to contribute to this? The above group of people including Adam Fedor, Fred Kiefer, and Pierre-Yves Rivaille improved and bug squashed gnustep-gui after the 0.7.5 release on Januari 30th. With notable changes to the NSTable and NSText classes. We now have XIM support in xgps and xdps, thanks to Adam Fedor. Since Januari Manuel Guesdon added a some important new code to the CVS repository of GSWeb. Adam Fedor and Pierre-Yves Rivaille hacked their way through GORM, the interface modeler, while Philippe C.D. Robert made an enormous amount of changes to ProjectCenter with the most notable difference the added Editor. That's it for this week. Happy Stepping, Dennis Leeuw