wxruby users - Feb 2009 - wxRuby Release Candidate 1 (or, wxRuby 1.9.10)

Hi

I''m pleased to announce the release of wxRuby 2.0 Release Candidate 1 
(officially, wxRuby 1.9.10, to play safe with RubyGems versioning).

The major effort in this release has been fixing outstanding bugs. All 
of the bugs and feature requests on the tracker have been reviewed, and, 
where possible within wxRuby, have been fixed and closed - getting on 
for 30 items. There are also many other fixes and improvements based on 
reports on the mailing lists.

We''re finding that wxRuby''s now really solid and stable, and
we hope you
will too. But if not, we want to hear.

== WHAT''S NEW =
- Major rework of DataObject classes, allowing exchange of arbitrary 
data with external applications via drag''n''drop and clipboard
- Added TreeBook and ToolBook GUI classes
- Added Display, MouseState and AUIDockArt helper classes
- Many fixes to existing classes, methods and memory management
- Improved support for MingW and Ruby 1.9
- Additions and corrections to samples and docs

== INSTALLATION =
gem install wxruby

Note that, if on Linux, you will need your distro''s wxwidgets-2.8 
packages installed.

Currently, binary builds are available for Ruby 1.8 on Linux, Windows 
and OS X, and 1.9 on Linux and OS X. Additional builds for AMD-64 and 
MingW (including 1.9) should be available in due course.

== TODO =
Before official 2.0, we will:

- Verify and fix functioning of DataObjects on Windows
- Update README and INSTALLATION docs

== THANKS =
Included in this release are patches from Chauk-Mean Proum, Mario Steele 
and Pascal Hurni. Chauk-Mean has provided many valuable additions to 
wxRuby, and we''re pleased that he recently agreed to join the
"official"
wxRuby development team.

Also, a big thank-you to everyone who reported bugs either on the 
mailing list or the tracker. With a library as large as wxRuby, we rely 
on you to help us improve it to the standard it''s now reached. Keep it
up!

cheers
alex

Hi Alex, Chauk-Mean, Mario and Pascal:

Congrats! and Thanks for your great work!

I upgraded my app to wxRuby 1.9.10 for Ruby 1.9.1 on Mac OS X without 
problems, still waiting Ruby 1.9.1 mingw32 installer to test it out on 
Windows.

Regards,
Zhimin


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Zhimin Zhan wrote:
> Hi Alex, Chauk-Mean, Mario and Pascal:
>
> Congrats! and Thanks for your great work!
>   
Thanks for your kind words, and also for your feedback on previous 
versions. Your comments on event handling, for example, exposed subtle 
but important bugs in memory management which we hope are now resolved.
> I upgraded my app to wxRuby 1.9.10 for Ruby 1.9.1 on Mac OS X without 
> problems, still waiting Ruby 1.9.1 mingw32 installer to test it out on 
> Windows.
If you download the ruby 1.8 MingW/Msys pre-built environment by Luis 
Lavena, you should be able to build your own Ruby 1.9 without any 
modifications, using standard ./configure, make

cheers
a

Hi Zhimin,

2009/2/5 Zhimin Zhan <lists at ruby-forum.com>:
> I upgraded my app to wxRuby 1.9.10 for Ruby 1.9.1 on Mac OS X without
> problems, still waiting Ruby 1.9.1 mingw32 installer to test it out on
> Windows.
>
I intend to provide a wxruby distribution for Windows :
- based on ruby-1.9.1 on MinGW with the strict minimal dependency
(i.e. zlib required for rubygems)
- with the wxruby gem bundled

This is for people who don''t want to build ruby or cannot wait for the
availability of the new One Click Installer.

If you''re interested, just wait for the week-end ...

Cheers,

Chauk-Mean.