From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T02:39:24+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Copland 0.7.1, Packrat 0.1.0

Copland 0.7.1 is a maintenance release. It fixes a few bugs is all. 
However, it was necessary to release this before I released Packrat (see 
below).

Packrat 0.1.0 is a utility for extracting and formatting documentation 
for Copland packages. You can see an example of its output at:

   http://copland.rubyforge.org/packrat

(The above is the package reference documentation for the four major 
Copland packages.)

Packrat comes with one documentation template, "default". It renders the 
documentation to HTML (attractively, if I do say so myself). Future 
releases will include new templates, possibly ncluding support for 
LaTeX, RTF, plain text, and more.

In addition, Packrat is now the "flagship demonstration" of Copland--it 
was written using Copland, and demonstrates the BuilderFactory, simple 
services, configuration points, contributions, schemas, custom factory 
services, and multiple registry instances. If you've been wanting to 
look at a "real life" Copland application, here's your chance!

Packrat requires at least Copland 0.7.0, but works best with Copland 
0.7.1. Both Copland and Packrat are available from:

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/copland

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

"I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."