RE: [java-gnome-hackers] java-gnome-announce mailing list

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

Great idea.  Please feel free to make the
announcement.

> Hi,
>   I was just looking at the archives of the 
> java-gnome-announce mailing
> lists and noticed that no announcements have been made since pre0.8. 
> There's also quite a lot of spam - can't this be made into a 
> list where
> authorisation is required to post.
> 
> Were any announcement made about 0.8.1 anywhere?
> 
> I'd suggest that we should send an announcement out now about 
> the recent
> releases. There may be people subscribed to -announce who were waiting
> for a gnome2 port but not following the project. In terms of publicity
> for the project, I also think that now is the time to be 
> letting people
> know about java-gnome -- recent newbies to -developer have been giving
> great feedback and more importantly patches. I'd suggest that 
> we should
> also send these announcements to places like gnomedesktop.org 
> and gnome
> mailing lists (possibly java too?).
> 
> Perhaps something like the following should be sent out now. Should I
> send this? Is there anything else to add?
> 
> Java-Gnome Releases
> -------------------
> 
> The Java-Gnome project is proud to announce the recent releases of
> java-gnome 0.8 and 0.8.1 bringing full support for gtk/gnome 
> 2, many bug
> fixes and performance enhancements.
> 
> Java-Gnome is a set of libraries for creating GTK and GNOME 
> applications
> in the Java programming language. This has two user bases:
> 
> - Java developers wanting an intuitive well designed API for creating
>   Graphical applications, as well as robust automatic GUI 
> building tools
>   via the glade program (using libglade). 
> - Gnome developers wanting a simpler API for writing graphical
>   applications, taking advantage of the many java libraries 
> and without
>   having to worry about memory.
> 
> Java-Gnome supports the latest major releases of GNOME, GTK and Glade,
> as well as a number of smaller libraries such as libvte. 
> 
> Performance is similar to that of native gnome applications. 
> Java-Gnome builds and runs using entirely free software, however the
> license does not impose on users wanting to create commercial products
> with Java-Gnome. 
> 
> Java-Gnome is available from the website as source tarballs (for
> compilation to Java bytecode, or compilation to Native libraries using
> gcj so that applications will not require a JVM in order to run), rpm
> packages. Java-Gnome is also available in the Debian sid 
> distribution in
> the packages libgnome0-java, libgtk0-java, libgnome0-java and
> libjava-gnome-doc.
> 
> --
> The Java-Gnome Team
> http://java-gnome.sf.net
>   
> -- 
>   .''`. Mark Howard
>  : :' :
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