[Fwd: GNOME-DB 0.0.95 released]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

> Hi all!
> 
> GNOME-DB 0.0.95 (a.k.a. GNOME-DB meets Bonobo) has been released.
> 
> GNOME-DB is a complete framewok for developing database-oriented
> applications, and actually allows access to PostgreSQL, MySQL,
> Oracle and ODBC data sources. Interbase, LDAP and Sybase are in
> development.
> This new release is a big step from previous versions, and includes:
> 
> * Bonobo config components: these are BonoboControls used for
>   administering your databases from GNOME-DB. Although, only PostgreSQL
>   and ODBC config components are provided. The rest are on the way.
> * Provider development framework: this is a library which implements
>   all the CORBA-related code on the server part, so now it is
>   possible to easily add new backends for accessing all kinds of
>   data sources (mSQL, Informix, POP3/IMAP, GNU SQL Server, ...).
>   This library has just been started, so it would be great if
>   somebody wanted to add a new provider to help us to fully test it.
> * ODBC provider: thanks to Nick Gorham, from the unixODBC
>   project, we've got a new updated ODBC provider. In previous versions,
>   we were using a very old implementation of the iODBC project. Now,
>   the ODBC provider should compile perfectly with both unixODBC and
>   iODBC. Anyway, the RPMS have been compiled with unixODBC.
> * GDA Manager: this is a tool to configure all your GNOME-DB
>   environment and to load the config components. It now allows
>   also for system-wide configuration, as well as local.
> * Bonobo components: a couple of Bonobo components are provided,
>   a database browser, and a grid (in early stages though), which can
>   be easily embedded into other Bonobo-aware applications. More
>   components to come.
> * C++ bindings: an initial snapshot of the C++ bindings for the
>   client libraries. As it is in beta state, we'd like people interested
>   in developing C++ apps based on GNOME-DB to have a try at them.
> * New and improved widgets: the client part of GNOME-DB provides a
>   library which contains several database-oriented widgets to allow
>   an easy integration in GNOME apps. The already existing widgets
>   (grid, browser, connect dialog, error viewer, combo box, ...) have
>   been improved in several ways, and others have been added, such as
>   the GnomeDbLogViewer, the GnomeDbDsnConfig, ...
> * Support in Glade: the Glade developers have added support for the
>   GNOME-DB widgets in Glade. This is included in glade-0.5.9.
> * Translations: Dannish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Irish
>   (Gaeilge), Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,
>   Russian, Swedish and Ukranian. Also, the GNOME-DB manual translation
>   to Spanish has been started by the gnome-es team
>   (http://www.croftj.net/~barreiro/spanish/gnome-es/)
> * millions of bugs have been fixed. Now all the CORBA part seems quite
>   stable
> 
> You'll need Bonobo installed on your system to run GNOME-DB. Also,
> gnome-print is needed.
> 
> Right now, due to the change in the GNOME web site, the GNOME-DB web
> pages won't be available until Monday. But for the moment, all the HTML
> pages are on CVS, in the gnomeweb-wml module, under the
> www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-db directory.
> 
> To download:
> 
> sources: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-db
> RPMS (built in Mandrake 7.0):
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/gnome-db
> SRPMS: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/SRPMS
>