From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-04-15T08:29:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Alexandria 0.1.1

On Wed 14 Apr 2004 at 03:26:43 +0900, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book
> collection.
> 
> This is the first public release, codename "Voile sur les filles",
> which:
> 
> * retrieves book information from Amazon (including cover pictures) ;
> * saves data using the YAML format ;
> * features an HIG-compliant user interface ;
> * shows books in different views (standard list or icons list).
> 
> (0.1.1 fixes a critical bug discovered just after 0.1.0).
> 
> Check it out at:
> 
>   http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
> 
> (screen shots included)

A very nice program.

One issue I noticed is that the version of Ruby/Amazon used with
Alexandria cannot be higher than 0.7.5, because of the normalisation of
product property names in 0.7.6 and higher. For example, @productname
became @product_name. This was done to make all property names follow a
consistent pattern.

Ian
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