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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: cgeiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Update: NEXTSTEP 3.2 Developer Release Date: 13 Aug 1993 23:04:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 163 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24hknm$134@digifix.digifix.com> This arrived in my personal mailbox today, and I thought that it would be of interest to all. Hello NEXTSTEP advocates and User Group leaders, I have two important new items for you today... => 1. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 Feature Set => 2. NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide (August 10, 1993) [this was already posted to announce on August 9th ] [Message-ID: <2473su$fvq@digifix.digifix.com> ] Please feel free to save these documents for future reference and also distribute these to NEXTSTEP interested individuals in your community. Conrad Geiger NeXT Email: Conrad_Geiger@next.com _________________________________________________________________ => 1. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 Feature Set Retail Price: $1995 Product Includes software on CD-ROM, and full hardcopy technical library. Upgrade Pricing: FREE to those 3.1 customers that register BEFORE 10/31/93 Otherwise, $495. Price is the same for Intel and NeXT Computer versions. New Feature List: HeaderViewer Application Modifications - Update Menu Item - This feature allows the developer to reload precompiled headers into the application, if a new version has been created. Previously, developers had to quit the application and then relaunch it to get a newer version. This feature is useful for developers using HeaderViewer to work with their own object libraries, that are dynamically changing. - Kit Filter Preference - A new preference setting has been added to the application to allow more control over the contents being browsed by the developer. This feature enables object classes to be filtered out that are referenced by other object kits that the developer is browsing, providing the developer with more concise information. For example, a developer may want to only view the DBKit object classes, and not see the AppKit object classes in the browser, even though DBKit includes appkit.h in its definition. The default behavior for HeaderViewer is to italicize the objects in the browser that are included as opposed to being a part of the actual kit. - On-Line Documentation - In addition to the application's online Help facility, full documentation for the application has been added to the online library of technical documentation. ProjectBuilder.app Modifications - Finder Mode - This is a new view option in the ProjectBuilder main window, to allow a developer to find all instances of words/strings inside of the files that live in the different project categories. For example, a developer could search for a particular word or string in the object header and implementation files within the project. The developer can choose whether the search mechanism uses grep syntax for wildcard searches, or the standard UNIX cshell wildcarding. - Improved Bundle Attribute Support - More support for modifying the attributes of bundle projects has been added. For example, the developer is no longer limited to the .bundle extension, but can create an extension unique to their needs. - Object-Server Support - A new project type has been added to ProjectBuilder, called Tools. This project builds applications that are not dependent on the NEXTSTEP GUI, and therefore do not have the standard AppKit event loop processing, etc. The primary goal of this feature is to allow developers to build object services that run in a network, and can be accessed through DO/PDO via NEXTSTEP client applications. This project type also supports the building of standard UNIX command-line programs that do not interact with the NEXTSTEP Window Server. - Initial PDO Support - ProjectBuilder has always been able to build objects/applications remotely over the network, on another NEXTSTEP machine. Changes have been added to allow ProjectBuilder to now communicate via Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) to a non-NEXTSTEP machine, and build objects/applications in the target environment. This will allow PDO developers to build their object services for their servers from a NEXTSTEP client utilizing the same ProjectBuilder facilities they use for NEXTSTEP applications. FileMerge.app - FileMerge is a new application being added as a demo this release, with the intent of making it a fully supported and documented application in the next release. FileMerge is used to compare 2 directories, and show which files are added, deleted, or modified. For a pair of files that are different, the application will show them side-by-side in a view that marks all differences in a very graphical manner. The developer can choose to create a third file, which is viewed below the 2 files being compared, and then selectively merge the two files by choosing which of the above files the changes should come from, for each set of differences. Using this tool, a developer can quickly tell what changed, and quickly merge changes from different source branches with a few mouse clicks. This application will also support an open protocol to allow other tools, such as a Software Configuration Management System, to access and utilize it. Gdb Debugger - Data Breakpoints - Data breakpoints was a feature that existed in NEXTSTEP Release 3.0, but was taken out in Release 3.1 because of its platform dependent implementation. A new platform independent implementation has been added, that is actually more accurate than previous implementations. C++ Support - libg++ - The GNU libg++, v2.3, C++ class libraries are being added to the release. On-line documentation for the library is being added as well. - ld++ Command Wrapper - This wrapper will prevent C++ developers from having to look at mangled names when there is a link error. The errors will be expressed in the native C++ names. GNU Sources - A new package, GNUSource.pkg, is being added to the NEXTSTEP Developer product. This includes all the standard GNU sources that NeXT is required to make available to the public. The package will install the sources in the directory /NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/ by default. In addition to these new features, 3.2 includes both bug fixes and performance enhancements.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.