From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2006-03-19T20:08:31+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RMagick 1.10.1 windows (BETA) binary

Dear Rubyists, 

I would like to announce that there is a new binary package of RMagick 
for Windows systems. The RMagick release 1.10.1 is available, statically 
linked  to ImageMagick 6.2.6. This release has been built with Ruby 1.8.4 
(mingw32), but will certainly work on the mswin32 builds of Ruby 1.8.4 
and most probably also on 1.8.3. 

It will NOT work on cygwin builds. 

The zipped package can be downloaded from this location: 
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12

* Why Beta ? * 

We're releasing this with a beta label because there will certainly be 
some problems surfacing once this is out there. Also because we have 
linked with some new libraries (xml2) that should widen the feature range 
enabled. This means that we have to test this more thoroughly before it's 
called a stable release. 

Does it mean you can't try it out ? No. You even should. And then earn 
our forever gratitude by giving us a quick feedback. Be sure to mention 
the fact that you are using the beta release in your communication. 

Just don't install this on all your production servers. You might hurt 
yourself. 

* What is this RMagick thing, anyway ? * 

What is RMagick?  RMagick is a binding from Ruby to the ImageMagick TM 
and GraphicsMagick image manipulation libraries. Here's how the 
ImageMagick home page describes ImageMagick:  ImageMagickTM is a robust 
collection of tools and libraries...to read,  write, and manipulate an 
image in many image formats (over 87 major formats)  including popular 
formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With  ImageMagick 
you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web  
applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add  
special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or  
differing image format.

More info on this: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/

Watch this space for the announce of the stable release. 
faithfully yours, 
kaspar

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