From: Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>
Date: 2006-12-29T23:49:51+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-GNOME2-0.16.0

Hi,

Ruby-GNOME2-0.16.0 is out. Enjoy!

Highlights
==========
  * Fixed serious bugs (depends on GC)
  * Support GTK+-2.10 and the latest version of each libraries.
  * Don't include Ruby/GStreamer and Ruby/Libgda. We cancel to
    support Ruby/GStreamer and Ruby/Libgda.
  * Cancel to support ruby-1.6.x and GTK+-2.4 or earlier.

See the NEWS for more details:
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20061229_1

Downloads
=========
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614

* ruby-gtk2-x.x.x.tar.gz
  The minimum package which includes
  Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2.

* ruby-gnome2-all-x.x.x.tar.gz
  All Ruby-GNOME2 libraries.

* ruby-gtk2-x.x.x-x-i386-msvcrt-1.8.zip
  The binary package for One-Click Ruby Installer.
  Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2,
  Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/GtkGLExt, Ruby/Libart.
  With rcairo-1.2.0.

Thanks to
=========
Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way to this release:
   Guillaume Cottenceau, Kouhei Sutou, Pascal Terjan, Sjoerd Simons

What's Ruby-GNOME2?
===================
Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for
the GNOME 2.x development environment.

Supported libraries are below.

== Core libraries
* Ruby/GLib2        - the low-level core library that forms the basis
* Ruby/ATK          - a set of interfaces for accessibility
* Ruby/Pango        - layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
                      on internationalization
* Ruby/GdkPixbuf2   - image loading and manipulation
* Ruby/GTK2         - GUI widgets

== Extra libraries
* Ruby/GConf2       - a process-transparent configuration database, like Registry
* Ruby/GNOME2       - containing extra widgets
* Ruby/GnomeCanvas2 - a widget for creating interactive structured graphics
* Ruby/GnomePrint   - printing
* Ruby/GnomePrintUI - GUIs for printing
* Ruby/GnomeVFS     - letting applications seamlessly access remote and local files
* Ruby/GStreamer    - mulimedia framework for Audio/Video
* Ruby/GtkGLExt     - 3D rendering using OpenGL
* Ruby/GtkHtml2     - a HTML widget
* Ruby/GtkMozeEmbed - a widget embedding a Mozilla Gecko renderer.
* Ruby/GtkSourceView- a Text widget with syntax highlighting and other 
                                        features typical of a source code editor.
* Ruby/Libart2      - handles the drawing capabilities
* Ruby/Libgda       - an interface to the GDA(GNU Data Access) architecture
                                to access data sources such as Databases, LDAP.
* Ruby/Libglade2    - gives applications the ability to load user interfaces
                                  from XML files at runtime. the XML files are created
                                  with GLADE user interface builder. 
* Ruby/PanelApplet  - panel applets library for the GNOME panel.
* Ruby/Poppler         - a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base
* Ruby/RSVG         - rendering of SVG vector graphics.
* Ruby/VTE            - a terminal emulator widget used by GNOME terminal.

Resources
=========
- Mailing lists
  http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53614

- Project website
  (English)        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/
  (Spanish)        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/es/
  (French)         http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/
  (German)         http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/ 
  (Italian)        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/
  (Japanese)       http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/
  (Portuguese(BR)) http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt_BR/


- Ruby-GNOME2 API Reference
  (English)  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference
  (Japanese) http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?Ruby-GNOME2+API+Reference

- Tutorials
  (English)        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?tutorials 
  (French)         http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/fr/hiki.cgi?tutoriels
  (German)         http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/de/hiki.cgi?tutoriais 
  (Italian)        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/it/hiki.cgi?tutorials
  (Japanese)       http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ja/hiki.cgi?tutorials
  (Portuguese(BR)) http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/pt_BR/hiki.cgi?tutoriais

- Samples
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Samples

- Other resources
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Links

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>