GNUstep weekly update

Week ending 11 March 2001

GNUstep Launchpad prerelease 0.9.2 (consisting of gnustep-make, gnustep-base,
gnustep-guile, and jigs) was just released. This will be the last prerelease
before a 1.0 version.

Also GWorkspace 1.8 was released with many new features such as an Icon View,
Desktop Shelf and more preferences.

gnustep-base (Foundation)


GSXML - added error/warning/fatal methods for GSSAXHandler
NSThread - only define objc_thread_add and objc_thread_remove if they are not
present in the runtime (the current runtime has them).
NSUserDefaults - documented setUserLanguages: and made it use NSLanguages.
NSCharacterSet - documented some methods.  Optimised unicode case conversions.
NSObject - fix obscure error in methodSignatureForSelector:.
NSInvocation - correct copying of unhandled argument types.
NSCalendardDate and NSTimeZone - new header files for MacOS-X compatibility.



gnustep-gui (GUI frontend library)


NSSecureTextField - include in AppKit.h header, added support in gmodel code.
NSBezierPath - arc drawing made consistent with postscript.
NSTiff - declarations fixed to avoid compiler warnings.



gnustep-make (Makefiles package)


Added instruction for generating DLL defs
Make sure GNUstep paths are first in PATH in GNUstep.sh
Remove extra '/' from paths for tidiness
Treat all alpha systems the same way



gnustep-guile (Guile interfaace library)


Move to version 0.9.2
Improve configure checks and use GUILE flags.
Use NSProcessInfo arg initialisation when required.