From 4c6f6dbdcf3232635d3530c9d5ff0fcbed2ac125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: theraven Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:44:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated WIP announcement for 1.7. --- ANNOUNCE | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 75950a3..cc30f28 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,27 +1,28 @@ -GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.6.1 +GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.7 =============================== -This is a point release to the seventh official release of the GNUstep +This is a point release to the eighth official release of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (a.k.a. libobjc2). This runtime was designed to support the features of Objective-C 2 for use with GNUstep and other Objective-C programs. Highlights of this release include: -- Improved support for ARC autorelease pools. +- A new CMake-based build system -- Some small bug fixes in blocks support. +- A new exception implementation providing better integration with foreign + exceptions (e.g. C++ exceptions) (TODO) -- Improvements to the Objective-C++ unified exception model support. +- MIPS64 support in the assembly routines (TODO) -- Updated optimisation passes to work with LLVM 3.1 +- Updated optimisation passes to work with LLVM 3.2 You may obtain the code for this release from subversion at the following subversion branch: -svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/1.6.1 +svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/1.7 Alternatively, a tarball is available from: -http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.6.1.tar.bz2 +http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.7.tar.bz2 The runtime library is responsible for implementing the core features of the object model, as well as exposing introspection features to the user. The @@ -35,7 +36,5 @@ with the FSF's GCC 4.2.1 Objective-C ABI and also implements a new ABI that is supported by Clang and Étoilé's LanguageKit and is required for some of the newer features. -Although the runtime has been tested by several people, and is being used -extensively by the Étoilé project, it is relatively new code and may still -contain bugs. If you come across any problems, please report them to the -GNUstep Developer mailing list . +If you come across any problems, please report them to the GNUstep Developer +mailing list .