Stayed up way too late last night, but I finally got a first alpha release of FXRuby 1.2 out the door. After testing the waters on the mailing list, I decided to go ahead with my plan to switch to a RubyGems-based distribution of the code. It took some work to make this transition, and I’m still not sure that the gems are quite right, but it feels like the right decision for the long term. I finally got the files released to SourceForge, tagged it in CVS and then sent out the e-mail announcement to the FXRuby mailing lists.

As Murphy’s Law would have it, the SourceForge mailing list services went down around that time and so no one has actually seen those announcements yet.