[ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.0.0

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

I'm proud to announce this information.
Yes, Ruby-GetText-Package-1.0.0 is now available!


Highlights
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* The first major release
* The project has moved to rubyforge.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/
* Ruby on Rails is supported.
Includes a sample blog in samples/rails/
It's been translated in French/German/Japanese/Korean/Spanish.
* gem is supported. ($ gem install gettext)
$ gem install gettext
* rake is used as building tool.
* Not required racc anymore on installing time.
* Added some new APIs.
GetText.rgettext, GetText.rmsgfmt, GetText.textdomain.
* New/Updated translations:
French - Laurent Sansonetti
German - Sven Herzberg
Japanese - Masao Mutoh
Korean - Gyoung-Yoon Noh (NEW)
Spanish - David Espada
* bugfixes.

Website
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http://rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/

* Download
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=855&release_id=2856

* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTO
http://ponx.s5.xrea.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package HOWTO for CGI/ERB
http://ponx.s5.xrea.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-cgi.html
* Ruby-GetText-Package API Reference
http://ponx.s5.xrea.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-api.html

What's this?
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Ruby GetText Package is a Native Language Support Library and
Tools which modeled after GNU gettext package.

* Simple APIs(similar GNU gettext)
* rgettext command for creating po-files from files below:
o ruby scripts
o glade-2 XML file(.glade)
o ERB file(.rhtml)
* rmsgfmt command for creating a mo-file from a po-file.
* The po-file is compatible to GNU gettext.
You can maintain these files to use GNU getext tools.
* The mo-file is compatible to GNU gettext(msgfmt).
* multi-textdomain supported.
You can select two kind of textdomain's scope:
o A file base (default: recommanded)
o A Class/Module base (GetText::Container, GetText::ErbContainer, GetText::Rails)
* CGI support (gettext/cgi)
* ERB support (gettext/erb)
* Ruby on Rails support (gettext/rails)


Translators
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French - Laurent Sansonetti
German - Detlef Reichl, Sven Herzberg
Italian - Gabriele Renzi
Japanese - Masao Mutoh
Korean - Gyoung-Yoon Noh
Portuguese(Brazil) - Joao Pedrosa
Spanish - David Espada, David Moreno Garza
Swedish - Nikolai Weibull


Can you help us?/ Can we help you?
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I've started gettext-users-en mailing list.

http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=855

Join us if you are interested in:
* Improve Ruby-GetText-Package.
* Translators.
* Application/library owners who think to make your apps/libs L10n.
If you send us your po-files, we'll translate it!
# At least, a Japanese translator is available .

Regards,