From: Jan Friedrich <janfri.rubyforge@...>
Date: 2008-05-17T04:30:03+09:00
Subject: [ANN] MiniExiftool 0.6.0 released

MiniExiftool version 0.6.0 released!

http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/

MiniExiftool is a wrapper library for the Exiftool command-line
application (www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) written by Phil
Harvay. One of the completest tool for reading and writing meta
informations (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) on image files which supports many file
formats including raw formats.


Installation:
gem install mini_exiftool

or alternative download the tarball and run
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
sudo ruby setup.rb install


Tutorial:
http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/files/Tutorial.html


Changes:
- New methods for serialization:
  - MiniExiftool.from_hash
  - MiniExiftool.from_yaml
  - MiniExiftool#to_hash
  - MiniExiftool#to_yaml
Thanks to Andrew Bennett for the initial idea of YAML-serialization

- Refactoring of tests
- Small documentation update