From: Laurent Sansonetti <lrz@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T01:38:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Alexandria 0.1.1

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 23:29, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you :)

> 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.
> 

Yes, someone noticed that yesterday.  The CVS version uses Ruby/Amazon
0.8.1 now.

BTW, thank you for the good work on Ruby/Amazon.  It's pretty nice to
use :)

--
Laurent