svn commit: r42871 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Oct 7 10:29:39 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Oct  7 10:29:38 2013
New Revision: 42871
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42871

Log:
  - Add Q3 entry on the GNUstep ports
  
  Submitted by:	theraven

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Oct  7 10:16:32 2013	(r42870)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Oct  7 10:29:38 2013	(r42871)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 19 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
@@ -981,4 +981,45 @@
 	external help.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>GNUstep on &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>David</given>
+	  <common>Chisnall</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>theraven at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>GNUstep is the open source implementation of the Objective-C
+	APIs based on the OpenStep specification that Apple brands as
+	Cocoa.  The similarities between &os; and OS X
+	<tt>libc</tt> make &os; an attractive target platform for
+	porting OS X applications, with the addition of
+	GNUstep.</p>
+
+      <p>The GNUstep ports in &os; have now been updated to the latest
+	releases and now build with the GNUstep Objective-C runtime and
+	Clang 3.3, with the non-fragile ABI by default.  This means that
+	all of the modern features of Objective-C are supported,
+	including Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and recent syntax
+	improvements.</p>
+
+      <p>The <tt>devel/gnustep</tt> meta-port will install all of the
+	core GNUstep libraries, ready for development.  The
+	<tt>x11/gnustep-app</tt> meta-port will install all of the
+	GNUstep-based applications and libraries currently in the ports
+	tree.  Many of these are old and not well-tested with later
+	GNUstep release, so consider them experimental at present.
+	We are currently working on updating them, including moving from
+	some abandoned upstream locations to the GNUstep Applications
+	Project (GAP), which has taken over maintenance of a number of
+	older GNUstep programs.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
