[gnome-db] New version of Libgda/Libgnomedb

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of
libgda/libgnomedb (version 1.99.1) 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 1.99.0 include:
For libgda:
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- Database providers compilation fixes (Marc-Andre)
- General corrections (Murray)
- Possibility to avoid compiling C# bindings (Vivien)
- Gda# packaging corrections (Vivien)
- Translations:
	- it (Marco Ciampa)
	- en_GB (David Lodge)
	- fi (Ilkka)

For libgnomedb:
---------------
- Possibility to avoid compiling C# bindings (Vivien)
- Bug fixes (Vivien)
- Translations:
	- en_GB (David Lodge)
	- fi (Ilkka)

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
(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.

Vivien