From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T11:48:58+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Copland 1.0

Well, I finally decided that Copland is ready for the Big Time. It's at 
a rosy 1.0 now, and I've officially designated it "stable".

(That naturally doesn't mean it is bug free or perfect, it just means 
that future releases will follow a more traditional versioning scheme.)

   project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/copland
   user manual:  http://copland.rubyforge.org
   api docs:     http://copland.rubyforge.org/api
   package docs: http://copland.rubyforge.org/packrat

This release features the following asterisk-like bullet points:

* Cycles in dependencies are now reported legibly when they result in 
errors.

* Substitution symbols in configuration points work correctly now.

* Public/private visibility for service points (for restricting service 
visibility outside of a package)

* Customizable log message formats, similar to those offered by Log4j

* Added more practical intro to Copland in the manual.

* Added RubyConf 2004 presentation.

Comments, as always, are welcome. I should mention that most of the 
comments I recieved about Copland during RubyConf have _not_ been 
implemented; I am choosing instead to focus on Needle ("The DI Container 
Formerly Known as Syringe"), which will be a much more Rubyish interface.

Further enhancements of Copland are pending sufficient interesting from 
the community--otherwise, all future efforts will focus on Needle.

- Jamis

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