   An alpha version of an GNU Objective-C class library for X/Motif
Windows is available via anonymous ftp from

    ftp.slac.stanford.edu:pub/sources/objcX-0.8.tar.gz.

For lack of a good witty name, the library is called objcX.

The library requires the List class from the Collection Library for
GNU Objective-C (libcoll) which is included in this distribution.

   Because we built this library to support porting NeXTSTEP
applications to X/Motif and because our GUI programming experience has
been with NeXTSTEP, this class library has a strongly resemblance to
NeXT's AppKit.   However, it is only a Objective-C wrapper to Motif
widgets and does not support Display PostScript, rich text,
pasteboard, drag and drop, services or many other things associated
with the NeXTSTEP environment that are not available under X windows.

   Also available, for a NeXTSTEP platform only, is a program that
converts an object archive file generated by the InterfaceBuilder
(.nib file) into a GNU object archive file usable by the objcX class
library.   It is available from

    ftp.slac.stanford.edu:pub/sources/trnib-0.8.tar.gz

This program requires NeXTSTEP developer and gcc.

    These announcements are also a call for help.   The library and
the translator program could use much more work in two areas...

- first the library could be flushed out with more features to support
larger applications

- second, I would like to contribute the library to the GNU project.
But it is based on Motif widgets which is not free software.  Thus,
work is needed to replace Motif widgets with widgets based on free
software.

