[Announce] GNOME 1.0.40, beta release

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

I'm pleased to announce the release of GNOME 1.0.40, a beta on the road to
the next major GNOME release. The GNOME hackers ask you to double check
their thoroughly bug-fixed releases to verify that all the bugs are really
gone.

If you go to ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-1.0.40/
(or a mirror), you will see a bunch of tar files. The suggested
installation order is:

	Prerequisites for the gnome libraries
audiofile-0.1.9.tar.gz		Audio file format library
esound-0.2.14.tar.gz		Sound server
glib-1.2.5.tar.gz		Utility routines
libxml-1.4.0.tar.gz		XML library
ORBit-0.4.95.tar.gz		CORBA implementation
gtk+-1.2.5.tar.gz		Widget set
imlib-1.9.7.tar.gz		Image loading and manipulation library

	Prerequisites for the main GNOME modules
gnome-libs-1.0.40.tar.gz	The main GNOME libraries
libgtop-1.0.4.tar.gz		Portable system status access library
libghttp-1.0.4.tar.gz		HTTP access library

	The main GNOME modules
gnome-core-1.0.41.tar.gz	Panel, help browser, session manager
mc-4.5.39.tar.gz		File manager
control-center-1.0.40.tar.gz	Graphical configuration for user settings
gdm-2.0beta3.tar.gz		Graphical login screen

	Prerequisities for some of the apps
libglade-0.6.tar.gz		GUI builder library
gnome-print-0.8.tar.gz		GNOME printing library

	Cool applications and add-ons
ee-0.3.10.tar.gz		Image viewer
gtop-1.0.4.tar.gz		CPU & memory usage monitoring
gnome-media-1.0.41.tar.gz	CD player, volume control, sound visualizer
gnome-pim-1.0.10.tar.gz		Calendar, addressbook
gnome-utils-1.0.13.tar.gz	Small utilities (hex editor, system info, file finder)
gtk-engines-0.6.tar.gz		More themes
xchat-1.2.1.tar.gz		IRC client
gnumeric-0.38.tar.gz		Spreadsheet

	Development tools
glade-0.5.3.tar.gz		GUI builder
gnome-objc-1.0.40.tar.gz	Objective C language bindings
gnome-python-1.0.4.tar.gz	Python language bindings
Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gz		C++ language bindings

If you want everything in one piece,
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-1.0.40.tar.gz is also
available. .rpm and .deb packages should be available for the various
distributions as soon as we find volunteers to build them :)

Now is a VERY good time to tell us how buggy GNOME 1.0.40 is. Included in
gnome-libs is a 'gnome-bug' script that you can use to report problems.
You can also discuss problems on the gnome-list mailing list. We will try
to make another beta release shortly if the bug list warrants.

Thanks go to to all the hackers who have worked so hard on making this
release happen, and who are continuing to fix bugs in preparation for the
upcoming release.

-- Elliot
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.