GNUstep Weekly Update

[Adam Fedor]

See http://www.gnustep.org

Week ending 29 April 2001

gnustep-base (Foundation)


Several bugs have been fixed (making the current CVS code rather more
robust than the 1.0 release) and more work has been done towards
making the code portable to Apple systems.  Minor optimisation has
also been done, New variable have been added to the make system so
that any software being built by the make package can tell exactly
what version of GNUstep-base it will be working with.  The XML parser
API has been modified to avoid exposing any of the internals of the
underlying Gnome-libxml code.  This should protect GNUstep users from
changes to the libxml API.  It also made it possible to wrap the XML
parser classes for use bu Java.  The documentation has been updated.



gnustep-gui (GUI frontend library)


There have been bugfixes made in the NSMatrix and NSTableView 
classes.



gnustep-make (Makefiles package)


Support for building Java tools added and installation and building 
of javadoc documentation improved.
Added a configuration option to let you specify an alternative 
thread library.



JIGS (Java language interface)


Wrapped the XML parsing classes so they can be used from Java



Gorm (Interface Builder clone)



Snapshot and RPM package released.  Gorm is a partial implementation
of something like Apples interface builder (call it aa pre-alpha).  At
this stage of development it permits you to create and edit basic
interfaces, allowing controls to be dragged and dropped onto windows
resized and connected together.  It currently does not support
grouping of controls together, nor does it support parsing of header
files to import custom objects.