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

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant 0.9.0 have been released.
> 

Congratulations to the gnome-db team!

Dom recently committed code to enable mail merge features in abiword. I 
hope we can hook that up with gnome-db/gnumeric to enable easy generation 
of documents from databases and spread-sheets.

Cheers

Martin


> 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.
> 
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