# \[ANN\] Ruby-GNOME2 0.90.3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-90-3/197953>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [October 23, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-90-3/197953 "2010-10-23T09:17:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-90-3/197953/1 "2010-10-23T09:17:09Z")

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Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 0.90.3:  
[Download ruby-gtk2-0.90.3.tar.gz (Ruby-GNOME 2)](http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gtk2-0.90.3.tar.gz)  
[Download ruby-gnome2-all-0.90.3.tar.gz (Ruby-GNOME 2)](http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2-all-0.90.3.tar.gz)

=== Summary

- Support String encoding in Ruby 1.9.
- RVAL2CSTR2 and CSTR2RVAL2 are deprecated.
- Ruby/GIO2 is imported as an experimental library.

=== Changes

==== All

- Support String encoding.  
[Guillaume C., Neil R., Kouhei S.]
- Don’t install \*.pc by default. Set pkgconfigdir make  
varialbe like ‘make pkgconfigdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig’.

==== Ruby/GLib2

- Improvements:
  - declare argument types.  
[Nobuyoshi N., Kouhei S.]

==== Ruby/GIO2

- Imported as an experimental library.  
[Nikolai W.]

==== Ruby/GTK2

- Improvements:
  - keep backward compatibility around GDK key  
symbols introduced at GTK+ 2.20.  
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Constants names change in Gdk::KeyVal”  
[Vincent C.]
  - move gdk-pixbuf and cairo related methods from Ruby/GdkPixbuf2.  
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] gtk2 dependency to gdkpixbuf2”  
[Andrea D., Kouhei S.]

- Bug fixes:
  - fix GType conversion in Gtk::ItemFactory.new on 64bit  
platform.  
[Grant McLean, Steve W., Kouhei S.]

==== Ruby/GdkPixbuf2

- Improvements:
  - move gdk-pixbuf and cairo related methods to Ruby/GTK2.  
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] gtk2 dependency to gdkpixbuf2”  
[Andrea D., Kouhei S.]
  - change .pc filename from ruby-gdkpixbuf2 to  
ruby-gdk-pixbuf2.

==== Ruby/RSVG2

- Bug fixes:
  - add missing libcroco dependency on Windows.  
[U.Nakamura, Kouhei S.]

==== Ruby/Poppler

- Improvements:

- Bug fixes:

=== Thanks

- U.Nakamura
- kdmsnr
- Mamoru T.
- Guillaume C.
- Vincent C.
- Grant McLean
- Steve W.
- Andrea D.
- Nobuyoshi N.
- Neil R.

## Thanks,

kou

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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-90-3/197953/2 "2010-10-23T12:33:02Z")

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On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 09:16, Kouhei S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ==== Ruby/GIO2
> 
> - Imported as an experimental library.  
> [Nikolai W.]

Thanks! I will be available for doing maintenance work on this as  
bugs pop up. I’ll also try to get some documentation up.