Overview

Rarian is a documentation metadata library based on the proposed Freedesktop.org spec. It's current release is 0.8.1, which can be found at this link.

Please note, the 0.7 / 0.8 series is incompatible with previous versions. Details can be found in the NEWS file in the 0.8.0 release. If you're looking for Rarian for compiling GNOME 2.18, please use the 0.6.0 release. Thank you

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Releases

Current Series

The current series is Rarian 0.7 / 0.8 series.

0.8.1

Changes since 0.8.0:

• Ensure directories exist before reading them - bug #15755
• Close files and clean up behind us - bug #15654
• Fix potential crash when no info page exists - bug #15274 (Saleem Abdulrasool)
• Remove longopts to make non-linux work properly - bug #11839
• If $USERNAME isn't set (MacOS), use a default name - bug #14872
• Fix potential crasher on mangled info dir file - bug #12515

Files

• rarian-0.8.1.tar.gz - 446 kB
• - md5sum: 371b4da860da8f515d63bf617be9ada8
• rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2 - 331 kB
• - md5sum: 75091185e13da67a0ff4279de1757b94

0.8.0

Changes since 0.7.1:

• Remove debug output that got left in
• Slightly better categorisation

Files

• rarian-0.8.0.tar.gz - 446 kB
• - md5sum: 69fc5a07298197eed94223d4e839753a
• rarian-0.8.0.tar.bz2 - 331 kB
• - md5sum: 67e2d3ab27edcebdae9b85733712805e

Previous Releases

0.7.1

Changes since 0.7.0:

• Improve parsing of omf categories
• Add LZMA support
• Make attributes insensitive to ordering

Files

• rarian-0.7.1.tar.gz - 442 kB
• - md5sum: 1c1cda96b2fdb265e90dedaa2a45c086
• rarian-0.7.1.tar.bz2 - 313 kB
• - md5sum: f2a2755d62cecc717af2b5432ae0f390

0.7.0

This is the first in the series leading to the stable 0.7 release.

Changes since 0.6.0:

• Add new attributes for hidden (NoDisplay) and default section (DocDefaultSection) to the .document file parsing
• Increase scrictness of parsing in line with the spec.
• omf files now return (approximate) fd.o categories
• Add new requirement to define I_KNOW_RARIAN_0_8_IS_UNSTABLE before use
• rarian.h is now a general inclusion guard and main functions have moved to rarian-main.h
• Update example program to use new features

Files

• rarian-0.7.0.tar.gz - 421 kB
• - md5sum: 085bd6df05717501ab825e3e0293a362
• rarian-0.7.0.tar.bz2 - 308 kB
• - md5sum: 8811c2db80671cb6b9f7eef73edcb66d

These are previous releases in the 0.5 / 0.6 series. Stable releases are marked in bold

0.5.0

This is the first in the series leading to the stable 0.6 release.

• rarian-0.5.0.tar.gz - 421 kB
• - md5sum: 5843b36064ae1c31e1cef66790c97395
• rarian-0.5.0.tar.bz2 - 308 kB
• - md5sum: e4e84efc3c9ff0c07beb74e5d78899a4

0.5.2

This is a bug fix release. It also introduces a manual.

• rarian-0.5.2.tar.gz - 429 kB
• - md5sum: cd88bb84bfc4c86f96173544458e1eaa
• rarian-0.5.2.tar.bz2 - 319 kB
• - md5sum: 9de162c12764b78f1cf6ce3dc568adab

0.5.4

This is a bug fix release for 0.5.2.

• rarian-0.5.4.tar.gz - 432 kB
• - md5sum: 0c4f9feca9b1d54255da6e127c62d5f9
• rarian-0.5.4.tar.bz2 - 320 kB
• - md5sum: 81fca8cf680897dce98007eefff4ef80

0.5.6

This release (by defualt) stops translation of omf files and instead reads them directly.

• rarian-0.5.6.tar.gz - 433 kB
• - md5sum: 5b6bce0055bff7188b58756f9bafca37
• rarian-0.5.6.tar.bz2 - 323 kB
• - md5sum: 3e4e8b28536462c8608855f142dc895e

0.5.8

This is a bug-fix release to the 0.5 (unstable) series.

• rarian-0.5.8.tar.gz - 435 kB
• - md5sum: 1586d0f411740e436b1edaca3d7d2623
• rarian-0.5.8.tar.bz2 - 304 kB
• - md5sum: 9afee4d25a10bd5310ee21e23a09d659

0.6.0

This is the final release in the 0.6 series. This release contains several important fixes.

• rarian-0.6.0.tar.gz - 436 kB
• - md5sum: 23772a3b0f882d13c86dd9fa67bb21bf
• rarian-0.6.0.tar.bz2 - 305 kB
• - md5sum: 23772a3b0f882d13c86dd9fa67bb21bf