* Gnustep Base Library The Gnustep Base Library (libobjects) is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects written by Andrew Kachites McCallum and designed in the Smalltalk tradition. It includes collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, byte streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to byte streams, ports for network packet transmission, remote object messaging support, pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. * Gnustep Base Library The Gnustep Base Library (libobjects) is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects designed in the Smalltalk tradition. It includes collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, byte streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to byte streams, ports for network packet transmission, remote object messaging support, pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. It is being written by Andrew Kachites McCallum. * Gnustep Base Library (libobjects) Andrew Kachites McCallum is writing the Gnustep Base Library, a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects designed in the Smalltalk tradition. It includes collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, byte streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to byte streams, ports for network packet transmission, remote object messaging support, pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. It is being written by Andrew Kachites McCallum. * Gnustep Base Library The Gnustep Base Library (@code{libobjects}) is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects written by Andrew Kachites McCallum. It includes collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to streams, ports for network packet transmission, distributed objects (remote object messaging), pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. Contact @samp{mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu}. * Gnustep Base Library The Gnustep Base Library (libobjects) is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects written by Andrew Kachites McCallum. What `libg++' is to GNU's C++, `libobjects' is to GNU's Objective C. The library features collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, byte streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to byte streams, ports for network packet transmission, remote object messaging support, pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. The heirarchy of collection objects are similar in spirit to Smalltalk's collections. A deep inheritance heirarchy provides good uniformity of access to members across different collection classes. All collections can hold simple C types such as int's and floats, as well as Objects. The collection classes include simple collections (Set, Bag), collections with contents accessible by unordered keys (Dictionary, MappedCollector), collections with ordered contents (Array, LinkedList, BinaryTree, RBTree, SplayTree). There is also a DelegatePool object that can forward messages it receives to an arbitrary number of Delegates. Stream objects provide a consistent interface for reading and writing bytes. `StdioStream' objects work with files, file descriptors, FILE pointers and pipes to/from executables. `MemoryStream' objects work with memory buffers. There are methods for writing arbitrary n-length buffers, newline-terminated lines, and printf-style formated strings. Coders provide a formatted way of writing to Streams. After a coder is initialized with a stream, the coder can encode/decode Objective C objects and C types in an architecture-independent way. The currently available concrete coder classes are `BinaryCoder', for reading and writing a compact stream of illegible bytes, and `TextCoder', for reading and writing human-readable text (which you can also process with `perl', `awk', or whatever scripting language you like). Coders and streams can be mixed and matched so that programmers can choose the destination and the format separately. The current version is 0.1, the low number indicating that the library is still in flux. Future version will include String objects and before allocation/dealocation conventions. see ~rms/gnuorg/status Here is the simple description: * Gnustep Base Library The Gnustep Base Library (@code{libobjects}) is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects written by Andrew Kachites McCallum. It includes collection objects for maintaining groups of objects and C types, streams for I/O to various destinations, coders for formating objects and C types to streams, ports for network packet transmission, distributed objects (remote object messaging), pseudo-random number generators, and time handling facilities. It is known to work on i386, m68k, SPARC, MIPS, and RS6000. Contact the author at @samp{mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu}. (GNU's Flashes) * New Library (on the Languages Tape?) The Gnustep Base Library (@code{libobjects}) has been added. See ``GNU Software'' and ``Forthcoming GNUs'' for more information. (Forthcoming GNUs) * Gnustep Base Library Future versions will have String objects that are integrated into the Collection object hierarchy, a better allocation/deallocation mechanism, improved features for distributed objects (including a back-end that uses Mach ports instead of sockets), more extensive random number generator facilities, and ports to more machines. Volunteers are needed for additional projects; contact @code{mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu}.