From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2008-09-07T17:46:51+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-GNOME2 0.17.0

Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project project has been released
Ruby-GNOME2 0.17.0:
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614

Enjoy!

== Highlights

  * Support Ruby 1.8.7.
  * Support GLib 2.14 and 2.16.
  * Partially support GTK+ 2.12.
  * GStreamer 0.10.x support is merged.
  * Improve main loop polling.

See the NEWS for more details:
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20080907_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.

== Thanks to

Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way to this release:

  * Masao Mutoh
  * Joachim Glauche
  * Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA
  * Kouhei Sutou
  * Kero van Gelder
  * Masahiro Sakai
  * Detlef Reichl
  * Guillaume Cottenceau
  * Masahiro Sakai
  * Mikael Hallendal
  * Carlo E. Prelz
  * Sjoerd Simons
  * Juergen Mangler
  * Dirk von Schmieden
  * Mathieu Blondel
  * Joseph Method
  * Masayuki Yamaguchi
  * Neil Roberts
  * Cesare Tirabassi
  * Arnaud Cornet
  * kenhys

And also special thanks to all other contributors not listed above!

== 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

== Help us!

We need to people who helps us. Ruby-GNOME2 project needs
more resources to develop bindings, write documents, release
constantly, and more.

If you interested Ruby-GNOME2 project, please send a mail to
the ruby-gnome2-devel-en ML.


Thanks,
--
kou