Tidy some nextstep README etc files.

* nextstep/README: Move historical information to new file ../etc/NEXTSTEP.
* nextstep/AUTHORS: Merge into ./etc/NEXTSTEP and remove file.

* etc/NEXTSTEP: New file, extracted from ../nextstep/{AUTHORS,README}.

* make-dist: No more nextstep/AUTHORS.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 227 deletions

diff --git a/nextstep/README b/nextstep/README
index 8bc529b0ab..1ff2a4dd92 100644
--- a/nextstep/README
+++ b/nextstep/README
@@ -20,233 +20,6 @@ GNUstep "Startup 0.23" or later
 Tested on GNU/Linux, should work on other systems, perhaps with minor
 build tweaking.
 
-
-Background
-----------
-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.
-
-
-Release History
----------------
-
-1990-1992	1.0-3.0 (?)	Michael Brouwer's socket/terminal communication 
-				based version (GUI ran as a separate process.)
-
-1993/10/25	3.0.1		Last (?) release of Brouwer version.  Supports
-				NeXTstep 3.x and below.
-
-1994/04/24	4.0		Carl Edman's version using direct API following
-				the X-Windows port.  NeXTstep 3.x only.
-
-1995/06/15	4.1        	Second (and last) Carl Edman release, based on
-				Emacs 19.28.
-
-1996/07/28	4.2		First Christian Limpach release, based on
-				Emacs 19.29.
-
-??		5.0		??
-
-1997/12/??	6.0b1		Ported to OpenStep by Scott Bender.  Updated
-				to Emacs 20.2.
-
-??		6.0b2		(?) Scott Bender: ported to Rhapsody.
-
-1999/05/??	6.0b3		Scott Bender: "OS X Server", Emacs 20.3.
-
-2001/06/25	7.0		Ported to MacOS X (10.1) by Christophe de
-				Dinechin. Release based on Emacs 20.7. Hosting
-				moved to SourceForge.
-
-2002/01/03	7.0.1		Bug fixes.
-
-2002/08/27	7.0.2		Jaguar (OS X 10.2) support. Added an autoconf
-				option for sys_nerr being in stdio. Added
-				libncurses to the build libraries. Fixed a
-				problem with ns-alternate-is-meta. Changed the
-				icon color to blue, since Jaguar is yellow.
-
-2004/10/07	8.0-pre1	Ported to GNUstep by Adrian Robert.
-
-2004/11/04	8.0-pre2	Restored functionality on OS X (menu code
-				cleanup).  Improved scrollbar handling and
-				paste from other applications.  File icons
-				obtained properly from NSWorkspace.  Dropped
-				Gorm and Nib files.  Background refresh bug
-				fixed (in GNUstep).  Various small fixes and
-				code cleanups.  Now starts up under Art.
-
-2005/01/27	8.0-pre3	Bold and italic faces supported.  Cursor and
-				mouse highlighting rendering bugs
-				fixed. Drag/drop and cut/paste interaction
-				w/external apps fixed.  File load/save panels
-				available.  Stability and rendering speed
-				improvements. Some ObjC and VC mode bugs fixed.
-
-2005/02/27	8.0-rc1		Dynamic path detection at startup so Emacs.app
-				can be moved anywhere.  Added binary packages
-				and simplified source installation to running
-				two scripts.  Thorough cleanup of menu code;
-				now fully functional.  Fixed all detected
-				memory leaks.  Minor frame focus and title
-				bugs fixed.
-
-2005/03/30	8.0-rc2		"Configure" info directory now uses dynamic
-				path setting, so info files can go under .app.
-				Improved select() handling and PTY fixes so
-				shell mode and tramp run smoothly.
-				Significant rendering optimizations under
-				GNUstep, and now works under Art backend.
-				Non-Latin text rendering works (but not
-				fontsets), and LEIM is bundled.  UTF8 is used
-				for clipboard interaction.
-				Arrow cursor now used on scrollbar.
-				objc-mode and tramp now bundled in site-lisp.
-
-2005/05/30	8.0-rc3		Fixed bug with parsing of "easymenu" menus.
-       				Many problems with modes such as SLIME, MatLab,
-				and Planner go away.  Improved scrollbar
-				handling and rendering speed.  Color panel
-				and other bug fixes. mac-fix-env utility.
-				Font handling improvements (OS X 10.3, 10.4):
-				- heed 'GSFontAntiAlias' default
-				- heed system antialiasing threshold
-				- added 'UseQuickdrawSmoothing' default to
-				  invoke less heavy antialiasing
-
-2005/07/05	8.0-rc4		Added a Preferences panel.  Cleaned up
-				rendering for synthetic italic fonts.  Further
-				improved menu parsing.  Use system highlight
-				color.  Added previous- and next-mark history
-				navigation commmands bound to M-p,M-n.
-				Miscellaneous bug fixes.
-
-2005/08/04	8.0-rc5		All internal string handling changed to UTF-8.
-				This means menu items, color and color list
-				names, and a few other things will now display
-				properly.  It does NOT mean UTF-8 filenames
-				are displayed correctly in the minibuffer.
-				Also relating to UTF-8, contents of files
-				using this coding can now be displayed (though
-				not auto-recognized; add extensions to your
-				default coding alist).  Limited mac-roman
-				support was also added (also sans recognition).
-				Certain characters are not displayed properly
-				due to a translation problem.  (UTF-8 based on
-				work by Otfried Cheong; mac-roman from
-				emacs-21.)  Partial support for "dead-key"
-				handling now added.  Transparency (e.g., M-x
-				set-background-color ARGB88FFFFFF) improved:
-				only the background is made transparent.
-				Cursor drawing glitches fixed.  Preferences 
-				handling improved.  Fixed some portability
-				problems on Tiger and Puma.
-
-2005/09/12	8.0		Bundled ispell on OS X.  Minor bug fixes and
-				stability improvements.  Compiles under gcc-4.
-
-2005/09/26	8.0.1		Correct clipped rendering for synthetic
-				italics. Include the info directory.
-				Fix grabenv. Bundle whitespace package.
-
-2005/10/27	8.0.2		Correct rendering for wide characters during
-				cursor movement.  Fix bungled hack in ispell
-				bundling.
-
-2005/11/05	9.0-pre1	Updated to latest Emacs CVS code on unicode-2
-				branch (proposed to be released 2006/2007 as
-				Emacs 23).
-
-2005/11/11	9.0-pre2	Fix crashes for deiconifying and loading
-				certain images.  Improve vertical font metrics
-				(fixes inaccurate page up/down, window size,
-				and partial lines).  Support better remapping
-				of Alt/Opt and remapping of Command.  More
-				insistent defaulting of scrollbar to right.
-				Modest improvements to build process.
-
-2006/04/22	9.0-pre2a	Stopgap interim release to sync w/latest
-				unicode-2 CVS.  Includes XPM and partial
-				toolbar support.
-
-2006/06/08	9.0-pre3	Major upgrade to keyboard handling:
-				system-selected compositional input methods
-				should now work, as well as more keys /
-				keyboards.  XPM, toolbar, and tooltip support.
-				Some improvements to scrollbars, zoom, italic
-				rendering, pasting, Color panel.  Added function
-				ns-set-background-alpha to work around
-				inability to customize with numeric colors.
-				
-2006/12/24	9.0-rc1		Reworked font handling and text rendering to
-				use Kenichi Handa's new font back-end system.
-				Font sets are now supported and automatically
-				created when a font is selected.  Added recent
-				X11 colors to Emacs.clr (remove
-				~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr to pick up).  Added
-				ns-option-modifier, ns-control-modifier,
-				ns-function-modifier customization variables.
-				Update menus to Emacs 21+ conventions.  Right
-				mouse button now generates mouse-3 events.
-				Various bug fixes and rendering improvements.
-
-2007/09/10	9.0-rc2		Improve menubar, popup menu, and scrollbar
-				behavior, let accented char entry work in
-				isearch, follow system keymap for shortcut
-				keys, fix border and box drawing, remove
-				glitches in modeline drawing, support
-				overstrike for unavailable bold fonts, fix XPM
-				related crasher bugs.  Incremental font
-				metrics caching and other performance
-				improvements.  Shared-lisp builds now possible.
-
-2007/09/20	9.0-rc2a	Interim release.  New features: composed
-				character display, colored fringe bitmaps,
-				colored relief drawing, dynamic resizing,
-				Bug fixes: popup menu position and selection,
-				font width calculation, face color adaptation
-				to background, submenu keyboard navigation.
-				NOT TESTED ON GNUSTEP.
-
-2007/11/19	9.0-rc3		Integrated the multi-TTY functionality from
-				emacs core (however, mixed TTY and GUI
-				sessions are not working yet).  Support 10.5.
-				Give site-lisp load precedence over lisp and
-				add a compile option to prefer an additional
-				directory, use miniaturized miniwindow images
-				in some cases, rename cursor types for
-				consistency w/other emacs terms, improved font
-				selection for symbol scripts.
-				Bug fixes: fringe and bitmap, frame deletion,
-				resizing, cursor blink, workspace open-file,
-				image backgrounds, toolbar item enablement,
-				context menu positioning.
-
-2008/07/15	(none)		Merge to GNU Emacs CVS trunk.
-
 
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