GNUstep Weekly Editorial 05-04-2002

[dennis]

                            Editorial 05 April 2002
                                       
Mailing lists

   The most remarkable e-mail this week IMHO, was that of BALATON Zoltan,
   who created a gslib (very preliminary) implementation for
   gnustep-back. For more info see:
   http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/gnustep/gnustep-back-gslib.patch.gz
   and his e-mail in the mail archives.
   
   And ofcourse there where a lot of e-mails about the new backend and
   how to work with it. But all for the better, as the future will tell.
   
   Adam announced the backward compatibility options for gnustep-back:
I added a configure option (--with-name) so you can change the name of 
the back end. For instance, to get the old backend behavior, you could do:

      configure --enable-xlib --with-name=xgps
      make install

      make distclean
      configure --enable-xdps --with-name=xdps
      make install

Before running an application, choose one backend using the defaults program:
      defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-xdps

Code changes

   For gnustep-make Fred Kiefer made bundles work under Windows and
   Nicola Pero did some clean ups.
   
   There are no updates for gnustep-base this week, so we skip directly
   to gnustep-gui:
   
   Adam Fedor made NSObject work around a bug in MacOSX 10.1.x, and fixed
   a IBClasses bug for compiling on Darwin. Pierre-Yves Rivaille, Fred
   Kiefer, Gregory Casamento, and Nicola Pero all had their hand in the
   source this week to fix bugs,and tidied the code.
   
   Adam also touched gnustep-back where he implemented GSContext.m
   (-GSSendBezierPath:) and where he fixed a number of bugs together with
   Fred Kiefer.
   
Official GNUstep releases

   This is a new section in the editorial. From now on I will put in this
   sectrion the changes and updates of the official GNUstep applications.
     * GWorkspace 0.3.3
       
   Happy Stepping,
   Dennis Leeuw