Alexandria 0.6.2 released
2007-12-20
Alexandria 0.6.2 is the first new stable release of this program in two years. It marks the culmination of months of effort from the new maintainers, and our beta testers, in bringing the project back to life after a long hiatus. It is now available for download from RubyForge
Alexandria was originally written by Laurent Sansonetti, and is now maintained by Joseph Method, with the help of Cathal Mc Ginley. Because Alexandria is free software we can continue to study, improve and distribute the program even though Laurent no longer has time to work on it. We hope you'll agree it was worthwhile restarting development of this neat little program. Why not help us make it better?
Notable new features since 0.6.1:
- Smart Libraries: these function likes filtered views on your libraries, defined by a set of rules.
- CueCat "Acquire from Scanner" support: you can now add dozens of books quickly and easily by using an unmodified CueCat barcode scanner to scan ISBN barcodes.
- New translations for Dutch and Ukranian.
Users of Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux variants should download alexandria_0.6.2_all.deb and install it with sudo dpkg --install alexandria_0.6.2_all.deb If you have been using an earlier version (0.6.1 or 0.6.2b2) then you will already have resolved most of the necessary dependencies.
On other systems, you should fetch the source package alexandria-0.6.2.tar.gz and build it with rake and sudo rake install
We believe 0.6.2 is fairly stable (and much more stable than 0.6.1) but you should still back up your libraries before upgrading. New users should not have any problems.
Please report any new issues on the Tracker at RubyForge, or join the alexandria-list mailing list to discuss features and issues with the friendly developers :^)