[Gramps-announce] “UNSTABLE” Gramps 4.0.0 Alpha1 release

[Jérôme <rom...@ya...>]

The Gramps Developers have released:

*“UNSTABLE” Gramps 4.0.0 Alpha1 release.*

    This is a technology preview to allow plugin writers and
    packagers-installer
    writers to update their plugins and scripts. This release is not
    production
    ready, so use for testing!”

    It is recommended to use Gramps 4.0.0 with python 3.2 so as to be ready
    for the future (python 2.7 works though).

    The dependencies for Gramps 4.0.0 are _completely different than
    3.4_ due
    to the switch to GObject introspection, and the removal of autotools. So
    only install 4.0.0 if you are certain you can obtain the dependencies,
    see *README* and *INSTALL*.

    For linux, in Ubuntu 12.10 you can install 4.0.0, but you will need to
    compile and install osmgpsmap manually to have the maps working (see
    OsmGpsMap for Geography
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion#OsmGpsMap_for_Geography>)


  * Major enhancements in Gramps 4.0.0:
  * GEP 8
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_008:_File_Organization>
    : Code reorganization
  * GEP 26
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_026:_Replace_%27make%27_for_Gramps_build>
    : Replace make
  * GEP 29
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion>
    : Gtk 3
  * GEP 31
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_031:_Python_3_support>
    : Python 3 support


    More info in the manual
    <http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_4.0_Wiki_Manual_-_What%27s_new%3F>.

    Everybody is invited to update the manual to make it current!

    You can download Gramps 4.0.0-alpha1 from sourceforge unstable
    section <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Unstable/>.