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OpenStep X Kit README
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The library is released under the GNU General Public Licence Library,
version 2. For more on the legal stuff, read COPYING.
For instructions on how to build the library, please read INSTALL.
Introduction
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The NSXKit is a library of Objective-C classes of objects which
provide a framework for implementing a graphical, event-driven
application under the X windowing system. The kit implements
a subset of the OpenStep specification, as released by NeXT Inc.
Goals:
1) Provide a significant subset of the OpenStep specification, so
that applications built to run on NEXTSTEP 4.x will be easily
portable to X-Windows.
2) Make the kit generic so that it can be used on other platforms,
namely Windows95 and WindowsNT. The XLib specific stuff will be
isolated in the drawing engine, a Display PostScript engine.
3) Leverage existing GNUStep code, specifically the libobjects library
(Foundation Kit), and Objc-X classes.
Team:
Project leader: Pascal Forget <pascal@wsc.com>
Assistant programmer: Graciela Cabrejo
Tehnical advisors: Paul Murphy <murphy@wsc.com>
Darcy Brockbank <samurai@hasc.ca>
Bob Brown <brown@wsc.com>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Andrew McCallum
Scott Chriestly <scottc@ocbi.com>
Software testing: Graciela Cabrejo
Documentation: Pascal Forget (French and English versions)
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.