[ANN] Ruby-GNOME2 0.90.6

[Kouhei Sutou]

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,