Alexandria 0.6.6 beta 1 released
2009-12-21
I'm releasing a beta version of the upcoming 0.6.6 release, just to see if anyone has problems with it. There are lots of improvements and bug fixes, but there may be snags too. It is now available for download from RubyForge
Notable changes in 0.6.6 beta 1:
- Fixed providers WorldCat (#27145), Proxis (#25730), Thalia (#27134), DeaStore (#27000) and BarnesAndNoble
- Made providers turn-off-and-onable in Preferences (#26931)
- Implemented an ad-hoc MARC parser to fix some Z39.50 providers (#27471)
- All incoming data converted to UTF-8 in a consistent fashion (#26968)
Users of Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux variants can download alexandria_0.6.6beta1.deb and install it with sudo dpkg --install alexandria_0.6.3_0.6.4b1_all.deb
If you have previously installed a version of Alexandria, you should have most of the dependencies already. You may additionally need libhpricot-ruby and libhtmlentities-ruby
You may find it easier to install Alexandria from the Alexandria PPA which also includes libmarc-ruby for Z39.50 support.
On other systems, you should fetch the source package alexandria-0.6.6beta1.tar.gz and build it with rake and sudo rake install
New in this release, you can also uninstall Alexandria easily with sudo rake uninstall
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 :^)