[gnome-db] libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant 0.9 have been released

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant 0.9.0 have been released.

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase and ODBC data sources.
Mergeant is an end user application that makes use of libgda and
libgnomedb to allow users to easily manage their databases.

This 0.9 release is the result of more than a year of refactoring and
porting to the GNOME 2.0 framework, which has resulted in a more
comprehensive set of tools and libraries.

libgda has seen all its CORBA dependencies removed, being now based on a
simple plugin architecture, which makes it suitable for any kind of
environment. Also, a much cleaner way of accessing data has been added,
resulting in the GDA data models, which allow a highly abstracted access
to the data returned by the underlying RDBMS.
libgnomedb continues to be a rich set of data oriented/bound widgets,
but now with a MVC-based architecture which allows a better management
of data in GNOME GUI applications.
Mergeant is the result of merging gASQL (http://gasql.sourceforge.net)
and the old GNOME-DB frontend. And, believe it, this is one of the best
decisions we've ever made, since Mergeant adds to the suite a rich set
of UI tools for managing data via libgda/libgnomedb.

This release also marks the beginning of the "road to 1.0", which is
what GNOME-DB developers are already working on, and which will include
all the features currently missing in 0.9.

Changes in this release since 0.8.199:

libgda 0.9.0
------------

 - Fixed weird initialization of the MySQL structures (cleber)
 - Fixed #96758 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #95985 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #96810 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed bison problems in SQL parser (gonzalo)
 - Fixed DTD validation of config XML file (gonzalo)
 - Implemented most schemas for FreeTDS provider (holger)
 - Fixed crash on provider lookups in client library (gonzalo)
 - Documentation fixes and additions (gonzalo, calvaris)
 - Fixed #99997 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #96810 (rodrigo)
 - First working version of the ported (from libgda 0.2.x) Sybase
   provider (holger)
 - Fixed #97669 (holger (FreeTDS part), rodrigo (Oracle part))
 - Updated translations:
        - cs (Michal Bukovjan)
        - de (cneumair)
        - es (pablodc)
        - ms (sebol)
        - pt_BR (gdvieira)
        - sv (menthos)

libgnomedb 0.9.0
----------------

 - Splitted stock icons initialization from the main library init
function,
   to have the GnomeDbLogin/GnomeDbLoginDialog widgets work correctly
   in Glade (rodrigo)
 - Updated translations:
        - be (dmitrym)
        - cs (Michal Bukovjan)
        - de (cneumair)
        - es (pablodc)
        - ms (sebol)
        - nl (adrighem)
        - pt_BR (gdvieira)
        - sv (menthos)

mergeant 0.9.0
--------------

 - Replaced old ChoiceCombo with the new ItemSelector (vivien)
 - Improved queries edition (vivien)
 - Fixed #96838 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #96842 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #96844 (rodrigo)
 - Fixed #96836 (rodrigo)
 - Added integrated settings dialog (rodrigo)
 - Updated translations:
        - cs (Michal Bukovjan)
        - de (cneumair)
        - es (pablodc)
        - fr (redfox)
        - ms (sebol)
        - nl (adrighem)
        - sv (menthos)
        - vi (pablo)

Tarballs are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v0.9.0/

To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade,
libbonoboui
* mergeant: libgda/libgnomedb and dependencies

You can find more information at the projects' homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything
you
want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.