ANN: myPDA-Zaurus-Edition DR4

[Dr. Nikolaus Schaller]

Dear all,

a new development (pre-)release of the Zaurus version of a "mini MacOS
X" based on GNUstep/mGStep is available for testing, giving feedback,
inspection, learning, comparing, etc ...

It consists of four components (more or less mature)

1) mySTEP - the LGPLed toolkit libraries
  - libFoundation
  - libAppKit (Xraw backend), 
  - libAddressBook (written from scrach to be neat, small 
    and compatible to Cocoa naming schemes)
  - libSystemUIPlugin (for MenuExtras)
  - libPreferencePane (to create plugins for Settings)
  - nib2mib (our version of nib2gmodel)
  - and others

2) myPDA - the runtime environment (X-Server, mlvwm, SystemUIServer,
...)

3) myApps - Application suite (Address Book, Calculator, Calendar,
File Finder, Viewer, Phone Dialer, Recorder, Browser, etc.)

4) Zaurus-X-gcc (2.95.3) - an ARM cross compiler plugin for Xcode
capable of Objective-C. So application development is done on a Mac
with Xcode, Interface Builder and Cocoa. .app bundles can be copied to
the Zaurus to run there. For development purposes, applications can
run on the Zaurus and redirect its graphical output to Apple X11 on
the host Mac.

All is compiled for the Sharp Zaurus (which uses an ARM-Linux 2.4) to
fit within 32 MByte file system and 32 MByte RAM (which is the main
reason why we can't use the latest full GNUstep and develop as a
parallel fork). The applications are also available as "dual
architecture bundles" for Test-Driving on a Mac OS X machine.

Here the links:

Product Page:    http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=myPDA-Zaurus-Edition
mySTEP library:  http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=mySTEP
test Drive:      http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=TestDrive
ARM gcc:         http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=Zaurus-X-gcc

We would really appreciate feedbacks. A dedicated discussion forum can
be found at http://www.dsitri.de/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=9

Nikolaus (aka hns)

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Dr.Nikolaus Schaller
  hns@computer.org
       DSITRI
http://www.dsitri.de
    Oberhaching
      Germany
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