From 0e20c61f8b932b1a146cda79b5f6407424602fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chong Yidong Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:35:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Consolidate credits. Copyedits. --- nextstep/README | 103 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) diff --git a/nextstep/README b/nextstep/README index 0fe2acfc907..2cf385b909f 100644 --- a/nextstep/README +++ b/nextstep/README @@ -1,87 +1,66 @@ Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. -Emacs.app -========= +This directory contains the files needed to build Emacs on +Nextstep-based platforms, including GNUStep and Mac OS X. -This file introduces the NeXTstep-based port of GNU Emacs, known as -Emacs.app, which runs on on many POSIX systems and possibly W32 using -the GNUstep libraries and on MacOS X systems using the Cocoa -libraries. The directory "nextstep" and its subdirectories "Cocoa" -and "GNUstep" contain files relevant to building and running on these -systems. +The Nextstep support code works on many POSIX systems (and possibly +W32) using the GNUstep libraries, and on MacOS X systems using the +Cocoa libraries. -Those primarily responsible for the port (in chronological order) were: +See the INSTALL file in this directory for compilaton instructions. -Michael Brouwer -Carl Edman -Christian Limpach -Scott Bender -Christophe de Dinechin -Adrian Robert +Those primarily responsible for the port were, in chronological order: +Michael Brouwer, Carl Edman, Christian Limpach, Scott Bender, +Christophe de Dinechin, and Adrian Robert. +Peter Dyballa assisted in a variety of ways to improve text rendering +and keyboard handling, Adam Ratcliffe documented the Preferences +panel, David M. Cooke contributed fixes to XPM handling, and Carsten +Bormann helped get dired working for non-ASCII filenames. People who +provided additional assistance include Adam Fedor, Fred Kiefer, M. Uli +Klusterer, Alexander Malmberg, Jonas Matton, and Riccardo Mottola. See AUTHORS file and "Release History" below for more information. -GNU Emacs is due to Richard Stallman and company. - -The GNUstep port was made possible through the assistance of Adam Fedor, Fred -Kiefer, M. Uli Klusterer, Alexander Malmberg, Jonas Matton, and Riccardo -Mottola. - -Peter Dyballa assisted in a variety of ways to improve text rendering and -keyboard handling. Adam Ratcliffe documented the Preferences panel. David -M. Cooke contributed fixes to XPM handling. Carsten Bormann helped get dired -working for non-ASCII filenames. - Requirements ------------ MacOS X 10.3 or later -- or - -GNUstep "Startup 0.13" or later -Tested on linux, should work on other systems, perhaps with minor build -tweaking. - - -Compilation ------------ - -See INSTALL. +- or - -Usage ------ - -Please use the first entry under the help menu within Emacs.app, do -"M-x info-ns-emacs". +GNUstep "Startup 0.13" or later +Tested on GNU/Linux, should work on other systems, perhaps with minor +build tweaking. Background ---------- - -Internally to emacs, the port and its code are referred to using the term -"NeXTstep", despite the fact that no system or API has been released under -this name in more than 10 years. Here's some background on why.. - -NeXT, Inc. introduced the NeXTstep API with its computer and operating system -in the late 1980's. Later on in collaboration with Sun, this API was -published as a specification called OpenStep. The GNUstep project started in -the early 1990's to provide a free implementation of this API. Later on, -Apple bought NeXT (some would say "NeXT bought Apple") and made OpenStep the -basis of OS X, calling the API "Cocoa". Since then, Cocoa has evolved beyond -the OpenStep specification, and GNUstep has followed it. - -Thus, calling this port "OpenStep" is not technically accurate, and in the -absence of any other determinant, we are using the term "NeXTstep", both -because it signifies the original inspiration that created these APIs, and -because all of the classes and functions still begin with the letters "NS". +Within Emacs, the port and its code are referred to using the term +"Nextstep", despite the fact that no system or API has been released +under this name in more than 10 years. Here's some background on why: + +NeXT, Inc. introduced the NeXTstep API with its computer and operating +system in the late 1980's. Later on, in collaboration with Sun, this +API was published as a specification called OpenStep. The GNUstep +project started in the early 1990's to provide a free implementation +of this API. Later on, Apple bought NeXT (some would say "NeXT bought +Apple") and made OpenStep the basis of OS X, calling the API "Cocoa". +Since then, Cocoa has evolved beyond the OpenStep specification, and +GNUstep has followed it. + +Thus, calling this port "OpenStep" is not technically accurate, and in +the absence of any other determinant, we are using the term +"Nextstep", both because it signifies the original inspiration that +created these APIs, and because all of the classes and functions still +begin with the letters "NS". (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep) -This Emacs port was first released in the early 1990's on the NeXT computer, -and was successively updated to OpenStep, Rhapsody, OS X, and then finally -GNUstep, tracking GNU emacs core releases in the meantime. - +This Emacs port was first released in the early 1990's on the NeXT +computer, and was successively updated to OpenStep, Rhapsody, OS X, +and then finally GNUstep, tracking GNU emacs core releases in the +meantime. Release History -- 2.39.2