GNUstep Weekly Editorial 21-04-2002

[dennis]

                            Editorial 21 April 2002
                                       
   A new section appeared on the Software - System page. You can now find
   references there to the different backend projects for gnustep-back.
   That are not part of the gnustep-back in CVS.
   
Mailing lists

   Adam Fedor announced a start of the libffi support in GNUstep. This
   means that ffcall and libffi will soon be supported. So you can choose
   which one you want to use.
   
   Björn Gohla mentioned the http://freshmeat.net/projects/libw11/ which
   might speed up the porting of AppKit to Windows. Pete French
   immediatly took interest, so who knows... We might see GNUstep on
   Windows with the graphical framework soon.
   
Code changes

   Nicola Pero added better Windows support to gnustep-make.
   
   Richard Frith-Macdonald and Nicola Pero added some Windows
   improvements to gnustep-base while Adam Fedor implemented the minimal
   working libffi support.
   
   Richard Frith-Macdonald, Ludovic Marcotte, Nicola Pero, Adam Fedor and
   Pierre-Yves Rivaille all worked on gnustep-gui. So get another CVS
   snapshot and checkout the changes ;)
   
   Adam fedor added graphics driver protocol information to
   XGServerWindow in gnustep-back. While he togather with Gregory John
   Casamento worked on a better UTF8 encoding handling.
   
   Manuel Guesdon worked on GNUstep-Web and added a framework for image.
   
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.
     * none
       
   Happy Stepping,
   Dennis Leeuw