GNUstep Weekly Editorial 14-12-2001

[dennis]

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 14 December 2001
                                       
The mailing-lists

   Adam Fedo announced that he will soon release a new version of
   gnustep-base and maybe gnustep-make in preparation for the release in
   January of gnustep-gui/xgps/etc
   
   And the big news his week was the donation from VMWare to the GNUstep
   projectof free VMWare Workstation 3.0 licenses. VMWare Inc. THANKS!!!
   
Code changes

   Nicola Pero changed a lot of gnustep-make code. Most noteably we now
   have a library-combo.make that defines the runtime, foundation, and
   gui elements, that make up the library combination path. And the
   regenerated the documents associated with GNUstep.
   
   Fred Kiefer, Nicola Pero, Willem Rein Oudshoorn, and Adam Fedor all
   had their hand in gnustep-gui this week. Mostly bugfixes, some new
   methods and some updated documentation.
   
   Fred Kiefer reorganised code into new class XFontCacher, added some
   more help messages, handle some errors better and adde a filter for
   the font pattern. This can be set in the user defaults with the key
   GSFontMask.
   
   Fred Kiefer also added together with Adam Fedor support for other
   window managers. Now there is better support for EWMH and GNOME
   complient window managers.
   
Applications

   No updates
   
Documentation

   Dennis Leeuw updated the Defaults document with the one from the CVS
   source tree

References

   1. http://www.gnustep.org/