Subject: [panda-development] Panda-0.5.4 Released

Date: Monday 12 April 2004 11:28 pm

From: Evan Nemerson 

To: panda-development@lists.sourceforge.net, panda-users@lists.sourceforge.net



Hi everyone,



I've just released Panda-0.5.4 via Savannah and SourceForge. I will make an

announcement via Freshmeat as soon as the files are available via stillhq.com



The release can currently be downloaded from:

	https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/panda

	http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/panda



As you may already be aware, the most important change in 0.5.4 is that the

library is now available under the terms of either the GPL or LGPL (your

choice). In order to accomplish this, the TDB code was removed, and either

Enlightenment DB or Berkeley DB (version 4) must be linked to in its place.



Other changes include the addition of link annotations (internal and

external), pkg-config support, and an RPM. The main point of this release,

however, was the licensing issue.



The time has begun to begin thinking about the next release of Panda, and

though I do not have a time frame, I do have a few features I'd like to

implement:



*	Improved font handling, using FreeType. I would like to be able to embed

 and use arbitrary fonts, supporting line and page wrapping of text boxes.

 *	Support XMP metadata, noteably Creative Commons licensing data.

*	Bindings for different languages, such as PHP, Python, etc.

*	Comprehensive documentation, using DocBook XML

*	Stronger Windows support



If you have any other ideas you would like to see integrated within the

library, please send a message to panda-development@lists.sourceforge.net

• panda-0.5.4.tar.bz2
• panda-0.5.4.tar.bz2.sig
• panda-docs-0.5.4.tar.bz2
• panda-docs-0.5.4.tar.bz2.sig
• panda-noexamples-0.5.4.tar.bz2
• panda-noexamples-0.5.4.tar.bz2.sig
• panda-0.5.4-1.i586.rpm
• panda-0.5.4-1.i586.rpm.sig
• panda-devel-0.5.4-1.i586.rpm
• panda-devel-0.5.4-1.i586.rpm.sig