ANNOUNCE: libgda/libgnomedb 1.99.0 (AKA 2.0 Beta2)

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of
libgda/libgnomedb (version 1.99.0) 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, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as
MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are part of the GNOME Office application suite, providing
database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.

Changes from version 1.9.103 include:
libgda 1.99.0
-------------------
- Database providers fixes (Bas, Vivien)
- Gda# fixes (Daniel)
- Oracle provider improvements (Bas)
- API cleanups and made more coherent (Vivien)
- New convenience functions for some common tasks (Daniel)
- SQLite provider now relies on SQLite 3.3.8 (Vivien)
- Improved documentation about migration from previous versions (Vivien)
- Many bug fixes and small improvements
- Translations:
       - en_GB (David Lodge)
       - fi (Ilkka)
       - ne (Pawan Chitrakar)
       - ja (Ryoichi INAGAKI)
       - vi (Clytie)

libgnomedb 1.99.0
--------------------
- GnomeDb# fixes (Daniel)
- New gnome-db-demo program to demo widgets and show code (Vivien)
- Improved documentation about migration from previous versions (Vivien)
- Many bug fixes and small improvements
- Translations:
       - en_GB (David Lodge)
       - fi (Ilkka)
       - ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó)
       - ne (Pawan Chitrakar)
       - vi (Clytie)

Tarballs are available (or should soon be) at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/1.99/ and
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomedb/1.99/

To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, Gtk+ >= 2.6.0, libgnomeui,
libglade, gtksourceview

You can find more information at the projects' homepage
(a new WIKI base web site at 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.