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Editorial 23 November 2001
First something from the previous editorial. I wrote it in a hurry, so
I forgot to mention the place where you can find the IRC servers:
irc.openprojects.net and join #gnustep
The mailing-lists
Wow, it went hecktic this week. Haven't seen that much e-mail on the
mailinglist for some time. So let's start off with the major ones:
First of all the big mail threat of the Objective-c++ compiler
donation by Apple Computer Inc. went on. There were a lot of responses
from all over the world, with comments, suggestions additions to
Objective-C, and bits and pieces of code flying around. Which supplied
me eventually with some links on Blocks which you can find in the
documenation section.
Then there was that one question that normally ends up in a flame war:
What GNU/Linux distribution is best to try GNUstep on...
But it didn't no flame war, no heated arguments, just a couple of
comments and ofcourse BSD was thrown in as another option.
The most interresting part of this mail, was the question which
database to use as a backend for GDL (The GNUstep EOF clone). I guess
the last answer was: If you want opensource go for PostgreSQL and if
you can afford a buck use FrontBase. If you can afford a lot of bucks
you might even think about Oracle.
Enrico wants to solve the problems with GWorkspace on Mac OS X, and he
needs a Macintosh for that. Lars Helldorf offered to help him out. One
very beautiful example of cooperation in the GNUstep world.
Another porting effort was discussed, that from NeXTSTEP 3.3 to
GNUstep. All agreed that the way to go was through OPENSTEP 4.2
Then last but not least Gregory Casamento added the gopen tool, a
clone of the NeXT open tool, to the code repository.
Code changes
Nicola Pero rewrote source-distribution.make and added the features to
create cvs snapshots, and package them.
As mentioned before Gregory John Casamento added gopen.m to the Tools
section.
Adam Fedor updated the Font caching methods.
Fred Kiefer added Mac OS X compatibility to NSTableView and, added and
implemented some methods for the handling of richt text to
NSTextField.
Willem Rein Oudshoorn fixed some memory overruns in the xgps backend.
And changed some more by replacing floats by integers in the XG...
files.
Applications
Laurent Julliard added a lot of new icons and inspectors to GORM, time
for a new checkout of the sources!
Dennis Leeuw
References
1. http://www.gnustep.net/
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