Free gnustep software for mac

mySTEP is a clone of mGStep/GNUstep for providing compatibility to the Cocoa framework (Foundation + AppKit).
mySTEP was designed to enable porting applications from MacOS X to the Sharp Zaurus platform.
There is a MacOS X package (dmg.gz) that must be installed together with Zaurus-X-gcc on a MacOS X machine with Xcode. It provides cross compilation.
The runtime library (.ipk version) needs to be installed on the Zaurus together with the runtime environment QuantumSTEP.
Enhancements:
- This is a complete rework of the X11 backend to allow to render scaled&rotated images. It also introduces direct parsing of NIB files created with Interface Builder.

GNUMail.app 1.1 is regarded as a simple yet convenient mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X. It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. GNUMail.app is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available. GNUMail.app was written from scratch. It uses Pantomime as its mail handling framework.

Enhancements:

• Multiple POP3 (with APOP support) accounts with local cache support (for leaving messages on server)
• Multiple delivery agents (SMTP or local mailer)
• Mail spool file support for receiving
• Good IMAP support with local caching
• Full RFC822 and RFC2822 support
• Read, compose, bounce, reply and forward mails
• Mailbox management (create, delete, locking and transfer messages) using the Berkeley mbox format
• Personal preferences management
• MIME support (decode and encode)
• A full MIME types manager
• Quoted Printable and BASE64 support
• Address Book with groups support
• Find Panel with regular expressions support
• Automatic or manual fetching of your mails (user's choice)
• Powerful filters that support regular expressions
• GPG (PGP) support through a bundle
• Messages threading.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Cynthiune is a free software and romantic music player for GNUstep and Mac OS X. Cynthiune can play Ogg and MP3 files.
For the moment, it looks pretty much like XMMS, Winamp and similar software. Even though it has far less features than those, the essential components of a usable and user-friendly program are there in my opinion.
From a programmatic point-of-view, I have decided to write a program that is released only when considered bug-free. The free software community lacks, IMnsHO, a sense of quality that makes its programs nearly useless to lambda users. Not only is it useless, but I think it also gives free software a bad reputation. The principle of freedom in "free software" is fundamental to me, but it has to be reachable not only by some sort of geeky elite. There is no point in telling users that since they have the freedom to enhance those programs, they must fix them if they want to use them. Releasing a program with too many bugs is of no use and is likely not to interest other fellow programmers in the community either.
On the other hand, Apple has published an interesting program called "iTunes". Of course, it is not free software but it does implement interesting ideas that I would like to include in Cynthiune. For example: CD burning, complete playlist management, etc... Personally I find its user interface to be not as user-friendly as it could be. My plan is thus to take advantage of my own programming skills and sense of aesthetics (and ergonomy) to try to write something a little bit different, inspired both by XMMS/Winamp and iTunes. Cynthiune is thus currently very basic but its core design is starting to be extensible enough that it will not be too much trouble to enhance it.
Enhancements:
- Major feature enhancements.

SSLisp is a simplistic command line interface (pure) LISP interpreter. It is written in Objective-C and compiles on Mac OS X with the Cocoa frameworks, or on a variety of other platforms with the aid of GNUstep.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug involving reading of some complex s-expressions.
- Fixed bug involving multiple function definitions.

netclasses is an asynchronous networking library that works on OS X natively, and any of the multitude of platforms supported by GNUstep.
Currently supports raw TCP/IP connections, the IRC protocol, and line-based protocols.
netclasses is an open source framework released under the LGPL. See http://www.gnu.org for licensing information.
Enhancements:
- Several gcc 4 compilation fixes
- Improved case insensitivity logic in the IRC support
- Fix to allow disconnection while reading data.

Zipper is a tool for inspecting the contents of a compressed archive and for extracting.
I know that theres a GNUstep port of the famous OpenUp application but I must admit that for a living I have to use Windoze at work. After a while I got quite used to Winzips UI.
Although I dont like some of its features, what I really like is the content listing of an archive without actually having to unpack it. This is what Zipper currently tries to mimic. This has also the advantage that you dont have to unpack archives from networked volumes to your local disk just to view whats in it.
Zipper has a single window, that displays the contents of the selected archive.
Main features:
- Add more extraction methods: zoo,arj,rpm,deb,ar
- Display more status/progress info when archiving and unarchiving
- DragnDrop executables to the Preferences dialog
- DragnDrop extraction to GWorkspace
- Display archive structure in NSOutlineView
- Before extracting the archive, check if files exist and ask user what should happen
- Handle password-protected archives
Enhancements:
- Try to determine the file type by the files content before resorting to the file extension. This is necessary as some file extensions are ambiguous.
- I finally restructured the code so that not all possible archivers need to be filled when closing the preferences panel. Now if you open an archive that does not have a valid archiver specified the preferences panel will open.

Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system. Pantomime can be seen as a JavaMail 1.2 clone written in Objective-C.
Pantomime is almost entirely written in Objective-C. The C language is only used where performance is critical. Pantomime uses a little bit of ELM code.
Main features:
- A full MIME encoder and decoder
- A folder view to local mailboxes (Berkeley Format), POP3 accounts or IMAP mailboxes
- A powerful API to work on all aspects of Message objects
- A local mailer and a SMTP conduit for sending messages
- APOP and SMTP AUTH support
- IMAP and POP3 URL Scheme support
- iconv and Core Foundation support
- maildir support
- SSL support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
Enhancements:
- TLS support for all protocols
- IMAP reconnection code and "fast folder switching" support
- Fully ported the application to Microsoft Windows (using GNUstep on MinGW)
- Improved the documentation and the examples
- Lots of other features, bug fixes, major refactorings and speed improvements.