From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2011-01-30T16:06:22+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby-GNOME2 0.90.6

Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 0.90.6.

Web:
  http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

= About Ruby-GNOME2

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GTK+
2.x and GNOME 2.x development environment.

= About GTK+

from http://www.gtk.org/

  GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating
  graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform
  compatibility and an easy to use API. GTK+ it is written
  in C, but has bindings to many other popular programming
  languages such as C++, Python and C# among others. GTK+ is
  licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 allowing development of
  both free and proprietary software with GTK+ without any
  license fees or royalties.

= About GNOME

from http://www.gnome.org/about/

  The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop
  environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for
  users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive
  framework for building applications that integrate into
  the rest of the desktop.

= About this release

This release drops all deprecated packages:

  * Ruby/Bonobo
  * Ruby/BonoboUI
  * Ruby/GConf
  * Ruby/GNOME2
  * Ruby/GnomeCanvas
  * Ruby/GnomePrint
  * Ruby/GnomePrintUI
  * Ruby/GnomeVFS
  * Ruby/GtkGLExt
  * Ruby/GtkHTML2
  * Ruby/GtkSourceView
  * Ruby/Libart
  * Ruby/Libglade
  * Ruby/PanelApplet

But all available packages support RubyGems. It means you
can install those packages by 'gem install ...'. Many of
them also provides a gem that includes Windows binary.

  * Ruby/ATK:             gem install atk            (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GdkPixbuf2:      gem install gdk_pixbuf2    (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GIO2:            gem install gio2           (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GLib2:           gem install glib2          (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GooCanvas:       gem install goocanvas      (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GStreamer:       gem install gstreamer      (Windows NG)
  * Ruby/GTK2:            gem install gtk2           (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/GtkMozEmbed:     gem install gtkmozembed    (Windows NG)
  * Ruby/GtkSourceView2:  gem install gtksourceview2 (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/Pango:           gem install pango          (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/Poppler:         gem install poppler        (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/RSVG2:           gem install rsvg2          (Windows OK)
  * Ruby/VTE:             gem install vte            (Windows NG)

= Changes

See http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20110130_1

Thanks,
--
kou