ANN: Étoilé 0.1 released

[Quentin Mathé]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce first Étoilé release.
Many thanks to all people who contributed to it (special thanks to  
Nicolas Roard, Yen-Ju Chen and Jesse Ross ;-).
Étoilé website is here : <http://www.etoile-project.org>

You may be interested to read about Étoilé vision in this interview  
recently published : <https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1046>

That's it :-)
Quentin.

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Étoilé 0.1 Released
===================

February 22, 2006 (From Internet). Today, the Étoilé project releases  
the
first developer preview release of the Étoilé user environment.  
Étoilé is a
GNUstep-based desktop environment for Linux and other Unix operating  
systems
which aims to improve project workflow for users.
Étoilé 0.1 consists of several frameworks which lay the foundation  
for the
future developments of the project. This release is targeted at  
current GNUstep
and Cocoa developers.


Key Features of Étoilé 0.1 for developers
-----------------------------------------

        * LuceneKit 0.1
        
        Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library
	originally developed in Java. LuceneKit is a class-to-class port of  
Lucene in
	GNUstep. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that  
requires
        full-text search.
        
        * OgreKit 1.0 (GNUstep version)
        
	OgreKit is an OniGuruma regular expression framework for Cocoa.  
OniGuruma
	supports different styles of regular expression (POSIX, Perl, Ruby,  
etc.).
	The GNUstep version of OgreKit is a port of the non-GUI portion of  
the original
    OgreKit, and is able to do searching and replacing with regular  
expression.
        
        * PreferencesKit 0.1
        
	PreferencesKit is a framework which provides various features to  
build flexible
        Preferences-like window in any GNUstep or Cocoa applications.

        * SQLiteClient 0.1 (Cocoa only)

    SQLiteClient is a SQLClient/SQLite port from SQLClient library  
in GNUstep/dev-libs.
    It uses sqlite3 library and is supposed to work only on Mac OS X.

        * UnitKit 1.1 (GNUstep version)
        
	UnitKit is a unit test framework for Objective-C. It is a port of  
latest Cocoa
        version, and contains few additional new features.

        * Developer Examples
        
More detailed Release Notes may be found here:
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php? 
title=Latest_Release_Notes>

        
Availability
------------

Étoilé 0.1 is currently available in code source form only and may be  
downloaded
at :
<http://download.gna.org/etoile/>

Instructions to compile and install it are located at:
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php?title=Install>

For developer related documentation, visit:
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php? 
title=Frameworks_Suite>


About Étoilé
------------

Étoilé is an independent project of various developers and artists  
which aims
to create an open source and innovative GNUstep-based desktop  
environment.

The Étoilé environment is document- and project-centric, and built  
from the ground up
on light, highly modular components. Étoilé's emphasis on modularity  
encourages
users to create personalized workflows by reshaping and recombining  
provided
Services and Components. This plug-in model of building applications  
and workflows
allows for a natural flexibility which is suitable for scaling from  
PDAs to high-end
workstations.


More Information
----------------

Visit our website: <http://www.etoile-project.org/>
Email the project lead: qmathe@gna.org


References
----------

    GNUstep: <http://www.gnustep.org/>
    Cocoa: <http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/>
    Lucene: <http://lucene.apache.org/java/>
    OgreKit: <http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/OgreKit/>
    UnitKit: <http://www.unitkit.org/>