"Jaguar" additions

[Adam Atlas]

With the release of Mac OS X 10.2 (commonly referred to by its code 
name "Jaguar") in less than 5 days, there will be many changes, 
updates, and new features in Apple's  Cocoa. (And suddenly, you can't 
say that the GNUstep Foundation is 100% complete anymore.)

One of the most notable additions is NSNetService and 
NSNetServiceBrowser, two classes for Apple's new "Zeroconf" technology 
(referred to in Mac OS X 10.2 as "Rendezvous"), a system for devices, 
including printers, PDAs, and of course computers (and more), to 
discover each other with absolutely no configuration necessary. 
(Printers, for example, wouldn't need to locate PDAs, but computers can 
locate Zeroconf-capable network printers, and print with no 
configuration.) It is a major addition, but it's not another closed, 
proprietary Apple technology. It's a proposed industry standard, and 
information about implementing it can be found at 
http://www.zeroconf.org.

In fact, Apple also created classes (actually, I think they're 
technically C structs) called "CFNetService" and "CFNetServiceBrowser" 
as part of the CoreFoundation framework (Not related to 
Cocoa/OpenStep/GNUstep; just another framework inherited from NeXT) 
that are open source under the APSL (which RMS hates). Once Jaguar is 
released (On the 24th), source will be available from www.darwin.org.

Actually, there are much more additions, not just Zeroconf/Rendezvous. 
I have an Apple Developer Connection account, so I receive betas of 
upcoming Mac OS X releases, and I can post any major changes to this 
list so the other developers can also get a head start on adding the 
latest changes to GNUstep.

I can post new header files from Cocoa, API documentation, and/or 
release notes, but they will have to be in a private area that only 
GNUstep developers can access until Jaguar is released in 5 days.

-- Adam Atlas