Gnome Hearts 0.1 Release Announcement

[Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>]

Gnome Hearts 0.1 Release Announcement
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Lone Wolves [1] is happy to announce the release of Gnome Hearts version 
0.1, an implementation of the classic hearts card game for the Gnome 
desktop. Gnome Hearts 0.1 is the first release since the project's 
inception on April 30, earlier this year.

Gnome Hearts features configurable rule-sets such as Omnibus and Spot 
Hearts besides the standard rules. The game also has multiple computer 
players that are implemented in the Lua [2] scripting language. This 
allows for easy modification of the players. Also, the game can use any 
deck of cards installed for the Gnome Games package.

[1] http://www.jejik.com
[2] http://www.lua.org

Downloading and installing Gnome Hearts
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Gnome Hearts can be downloaded from the project website at 
http://www.gnome-hearts.org/download or directly using this link [3]. At 
the moment only a .tar.gz source package is available. Binaries for 
various distributions will appear at a later date. Keep an eye out on 
the download page and the mailing list [4] for the announcements. In 
order to build the .tar.gz you need to have libgnomeui2.0, liblua50, 
liblualib50 and libglade2 plus their respective headers installed. See 
the README file in the package for more details.

[3] http://www.jejik.com/files/gnome-hearts/gnome-hearts-0.1.tar.gz
[4] http://lists.jejik.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hearts

Acknowledgments
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Many thanks to the people that contributed to this first release and 
those who cast a critical glance over the package so we could fix many 
issues before our first release.

--
Sander Marechal
http://www.gnome-hearts.org