[wxruby-users] wxRuby 1.9.9 released

[Кирилл Лиходедов]

Great work, Alex!
By the way, the Windows version now seems to be much more verbose on errors.
This is very helpful, thanks a lot.

Kirill.

2008/11/1 Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to>

> Hello
>
> I'm happy to announce that wxRuby version 1.9.9 is now available for
> download and gem installation:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35&release_id=27842
> gem install wxruby
>
> On Linux, the default binary gem is now dynamically linked to wxWidgets.
> This means you'll need to install wxWidgets from your package manager. See
> below for more info.
>
> == CHANGES ==
>
> This recommended upgrade includes a substantial number of new GUI features,
> as well as fixing a number of bugs:
>
> * Added the RichText framework, providing word-processor like editing of
> styled/formatted text and inline images
> * Added a number of other useful GUI classes, such as VScrolledWindow,
> VListBox and HtmlListBox
> * Added the StandardPaths and NavigationKeyEvent classes
> * Fixed a number of bugs and warnings
> * Binary builds for Windows and OS X are based on the latest stable
> wxWidgets, 2.8.9, so benefitting from upstream fixes
>
> It had been planned that 1.9.8 was the last release before 2.0. 1.9.9 is a
> chance to give some new classes some testing time and get some fixes out
> there whilst finishing up the last few 2.0 blocker bugs (eg Clipboard probs
> on GTK, ScrolledWindow X errors).
>
> == LINUX BINARY GEMS ==
>
> Previous binary builds for Linux were, like those for Windows and OS X,
> statically linked - meaning the wxRuby library included all the relevant
> wxWidgets code. With this release I've switched to offering a Linux gem that
> is dynamically linked - meaning it makes use of the wxWidgets library on
> your system - which should be easily installable from your package manager -
> eg apt-get install wxwidgets
>
> The reasoning here:
> * Because Linux systems vary a lot in what's installed by default, using
> the static build generally still required messing around installing new
> packages
> * Package managers make it trivially easy to install a recent version of
> wxWidgets on major distros
> * The shared builds are substantially smaller and may perform better
>
> I'm open to discussion on this based on experiences on different distros
> (I've only tested on Ubuntu).
>
> == ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ==
>
> Thanks to all those who contributed bug reports and feature requests to
> this release, as well as those who keep the project ticking over in other
> ways such as keeping the wiki up to date and taking part on the mailing
> list.
>
> cheers
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