[ann] Ruby appscript 0.6.0 released
[ann] Ruby appscript 0.6.0 released
- Subject: [ann] Ruby appscript 0.6.0 released
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:22 +0000
Hi folks,
Just to let you know rb-appscript 0.6.0 is now available:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2346
http://appscript.sourceforge.net/rb-appscript/install.html
This release provides several improvements:
- support for String encodings in Ruby 1.9+ (by default, strings with
ASCII-8BIT or UTF8 encodings are packed as Unicode text and Unicode
text is unpacked as Strings with UTF-8 encoding, though this can be
disabled using the #use_ascii_8bit compatibility option)
- the OSAX module now works in 64-bit processes
- Date and DateTime objects can now be used in application commands
(previously, only Time objects were allowed)
- a new #use_datetime compatibility option allows dates to be unpacked
as DateTime instead of Time objects (useful when working with dates
outside the range of Ruby's Time class)
See the rb-appscript documentation and CHANGES file for more details.
Please note that the new string encodings support has not been heavily
tested, so feedback from Ruby 1.9 users would be much appreciated. For
example, any problems using it on Ruby installations that work with
non-UTF-8 encodings? Any problems using it in conjunction with other
Ruby modules and frameworks?
If no major problems are found, release candidate 1 is next.
Enjoy,
has
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