ANNOUNCE: GNUstep LaunchPad Version 1.0.0 Released GNUstep Developers are happy to announce the first user release of GNUstep LaunchPad. GNUstep LaunchPad is a collection of libraries for creating non-graphical tools and applications using an API based on OpenStep and the MacOS X API. As with its godfather, the OpenStep system developed by NeXT, developers have noted that GNUstep allows faster development time and more flexibility than with other common application development libraries. GNUstep Launchpad consists of the following packages: GNUstep Make - A collection of make scripts that make configuration, building and packaging of projects almost trivial. GNUstep Base - A collection of Objective-C classes that provide all the fundamental objects required in most applications, such as dictionaries, unicode strings, distributed objects, timers, and more. GNUstep Guile - A package that allows one to use the Guile scripting language within GNUstep projects JIGS - An interface to Java, that allows one to use GNUstep objects in Java code and Java objects in GNUstep code. This entire suite of tools and libraries, collectively called GNUstep LaunchPad should allow developers to rapidly develop cross-platform applications using a set of object-oriented tools and a well developed API. Developers should be able to port applications from the well-known MacOS X development system to GNUstep with almost no changes in code. These packages have been developed over a number of years and are considered quite stable and useful on a number of platforms including GNU/Linux (ix86 and ppc), many BSD systems, and Solaris. It may be useful, but somewhat unstable, on other platforms, including Windows. The source as well as rpms are (or soon will be) available at the GNUstep ftp site (ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep). See the GNUstep website (http://www.gnustep.org), the Download and Documentation sections, for additional information. _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep