Updated WIP announcement for 1.7.

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GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.6.1
GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.7
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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
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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 <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>.
If you come across any problems, please report them to the GNUstep Developer
mailing list <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>.