GNUstep Weekly Editorial 12-06-2002

[dennis]

                            Editorial 12 June 2002
                                       
Mailing lists

   Stefan Urbanek extended StepTalk with 'Object Finders'. Object finder
   is an object that will search for object by specified name. Currently
   there is just one object finder called DistributedFinder that will
   search for registered DO objects.
   
Code changes

   gnustep-make 1.3.3 is released with the additions of Manuel Guesdon
   for LOCALIZED_COMPONENTS and a executable.template.in update by Nicola
   Pero so that if a binary for the currently specified LIBRARY_COMBO can
   not be found, automatically search and run the first available binary
   for any other LIBRARY_COMBO for this machine/os.
   
   For gnustep-base Richard Frith-Macdonald removed ([_dealloc]),
   ([-deallocNotificationsActive]), ([setDeallocNotificationsActive:])
   from NSObject.
   Then he set himself to rewrite NSURL.m to create it conform the
   documentation and to match the behaviour of MacOS-X.
   And then he implemented -className in NSObject and added
   NSParseErrorException to NSException.m
   Adam Fedor changed NSByteOrder.h to fix a bug in gcc 3.1
   
   The gnustep-gui changelog shows a lot of patching done by several
   maintainers, but all coming from one man: Jeff Teunissen. Thanks Jeff.
   Before the 0.7.8 release on 10th of June the other code additions
   where from Alexander Malmberg and Georg Fleischmann.
   
   On gnustep-back the current unstable releaser version is also 0.7.8.
   Fred Kiefer reimplemented creation of bitmaps in WIN32GState.m. It
   should now work for all bitmaps with >16 bits per pixel. The bitmaps
   that are still missing are due to clipping problems, as can be seen by
   switching clipping off.
   and he implemented most of the code to support different fonts in
   WIN32FontInfo.m.
   
   Again a lot of changes on GSWeb, and Dirk and Marcel ported GSW to Mac
   OS X.
   
Official GNUstep releases

   This section mentions the this week released versions of the official
   GNUstep parts.
     * gnustep-make-1.3.3
     * gnustep-gui-0.7.8
     * gnustep-back-0.7.8
     * StepTalk 0.6.0
       
   Happy Stepping,
   Dennis Leeuw