Summing up NX and GNUstep work

This post was quick to write, as it’s a cut-and-paste of a mail I just sent to gentoo-dev mailing list 😉
But I think it sums up nicely both the NX packages updates, and the undergoing work in the gnustep overlay, so here it is:

On the NX servers side:

• servers based on NX 2.1 code are now in portage, including the binary free edition from Nomachine (the NX developers), and freenx 0.6
• both of these servers now work on ~amd64 (multilib only though)
• 2x terminal server and client are now in portage: GPL (even the NX client) and based on Nomachine’s 1.5 code base
• 6 (old) packages were removed from the tree, replaced by net-misc/nx
• NX overlay provides a native 64-bit nx/freenx for the adventurous
• bugzilla NX bugs count is down to 3 🙂

With fellow dev grobian, I’ve also started to get GNUstep in Gentoo back in shape (i.e clean, easy to use, up to date, …). You can check the progress in the new gnustep overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnustep/wiki

Improvements include:

• support for new gnustep-make 2.0
• heavy rewrite of the gnustep eclasses and base ebuilds
• less polluting of the user profile (no more need to source exernal scripts that tinker with the linker path)
• easier-to-write ebuilds
• version bumps everywhere (and a few new packages, as a promising-looking cairo backend)
• under-the-hood fixes and enhancements here and there