Version pre-alpha-0.14 has been created.

This version could be installed as gem on Linux, but gem-installation
did not seem to work on Windows 2000. Help from someone with better
knowledge of Ruby on µ$-Windows to make this work would be
appreciated.

Generelly I recommend always using the newest version, until a stable
version has been created, so please download this version or a newer
one.


This version pre-alpha-0.14 (0.00.14 for ruby-gems) differs from the
previous version by having some more runit-tests included and by
having some minor bugs fixed.

Otherwise this version is identical with previous pre-alpha-0.13 and
complete in terms of functionality. Future work will go into more
tests, potential bug-fixing and better documentation. I expect to
create a alpha version within the next few weeks.


The following installation procedure has been verified on Linux with
Ruby 1.8.4:

1. download the .gem-file from
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9269/long-decimal-0.00.14.gem
(find by http://rubyforge.org/projects/long-decimal/ -> Files)
2. cd into the directory with the downloaded gem-file
3. become root, unless the current user has write-access to install gems
$ su
4. install gem
$ gem install long-decimal
5. use it from your own ruby programs and libraries like this
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
...
require "rubygems"
require_gem "long-decimal"


It is still not possible to use gem for downloading the gem, so you
have to download it first manually and then step into the directory
where the downloaded gem is, in order to install it with gem install.


Please observe that this is still pre-alpha-version, even though it is
getting close to becoming alpha.