Hi all
We''ve been a bit quiet for a few weeks, being busy with other things,
but now looking at getting some new releases out again. We have lots of
nice stuff to get out there:
For 1.9.3, we''re looking to target early January. Aside from trying to
get a few more bugfixes in, most of the code is now there. As usual, any
time you''re able to spend testing SVN trunk is much appreciated.
Given the range of new features (GraphicsContext, OpenGL, MediaCtrl etc)
it''d would be useful also to hear from people who don''t
regularly
compile against trunk but who would be willing to test out pre-release
binaries on any platform. We want to check that we haven''t introduced
any external dependencies for end users.
It seems recent releases of RubyGems have introduced further backwards
incompatibilities which means wxRuby gems aren''t working. I suggest
we''ll need to update to the latest rubygems version before building the
release binaries.
On the SWIG side, there is a new version out (1.33) - the ChangeLog
seems to have some ruby changes which could be useful for us, but I
think it would be better to move to this version after the 1.9.3 release.
I''ve just checked in a bunch of code to wxSugar that translates XRC (eg
from DialogBlocks) into pure (wx)Ruby code. This is going to be
integrated into xrcise - this approach has a lot of advantages over our
current way of just scaffolding the XmlResource loader code. So we may
be able to put a WxSugar release out first with this and Jari''s syntax
enhancements.
Anything I''ve missed, or other work we need to do, please say...
Lastly, happy christmas to everyone. It''s been a really successful
year
for wxRuby, going from a shaky, flaky preview release to being
recognised as one of the leading GUI development libraries for Ruby. It
wouldn''t have been possible without your patience and creativity, so
thanks for all your support.
cheers
alex
