GObject-Introspection 0.6.2

I'm proud to announce yet another release of GObject-Introspection.

Tarballs can be found at:
    http://download.gnome.org/sources/gobject-introspection/0.6/

What's new in this release?

* Gtk-doc comments (including version and deprecated) are
  now included in girs.
* Callback annotations (scope)
* Rewritten annotation parser
* Struct methods
* Bugs fixed:
    - Bug 562622 =96 Errordomains missing
    - Bug 562615 =96 Struct methods missing
    - Bug 567813 =96 Everything should be versioned
    - Bug 555036 =96 put gtk-doc in GIR
    - Bug 562467 =96 Property annotation
    - Bug 546739 =96 Introspection should know precise signal parameter typ=
es
    - Bug 563591 =96 Flags not recognized when there is no introspection da=
ta
    - Bug 563386 =96 scanner ignores "const" on boxed return values
    - Bug 566404 =96 Annotations for GLib
    - Bug 566419 =96 Element type of arrays not properly handled in all cas=
es
    - Bug 566560 =96 giscanner.transformer.SkipError
    - Bug 563794 - Redo annotation parsing & applying
    - Bug 563469 =96 Arrays not treated correctly in struct offset calculat=
ion
    - Bug 556489 =96 callback annotations
    - Bug 563998 =96 Cache the GIBaseInfo for GTypes
    - Bug 562545 =96 Add function taking / returning GValue
    - Bug 563742 =96 introspection should record the introduced version of
    - Bug 562971 =96 g-ir-scanner failure on libgpod headers
    - Bug 562289 =96 Race when removing invalid cache
    - Bug 559705 =96 Missing association between static methods and classes
    - Bug 562022 =96 gobject-introspection needs python headers
    - Bug 561617 =96 Return value array annotations
    - Bug 561296 - Add "storage type" to the typelib data for enums
    - Bug 559706 - Interface prerequisites
    - Bug 561087 - Respect is_pointer in serialize_type()
    - Bug 560825 =96 Add size and alignment to typelib

I've also started the process of moving GIR generation to the upstream
libraries.
Pango is already supporting that and Atk and Gtk+ will do so in the near fu=
ture.
This is necessary to be able to get documentation inside the gir, an example
of a GIR of Gtk+ trunk from a couple of days agao can be found here:

http://www.gnome.org/~johan/Gtk-2.0.gir.gz (300kb)

The goal of the project is to describe the APIs and collect them in
a uniform, machine readable format. The initial target is language bindings,
which are heavy users of this kind of data.

Interesting parts of this release includes:

* GIR - An XML format used to describe APIs
* Typelib - a way to serialize GIR to disk
* libgirepository - C API to access typelib

GIR format is fairly stable, but expect small parts to change.
The typelib format is not complete and will be extended upon in future rele=
ases.

There are Perl, Python and Java bindings publicly available using
GObject-Introspection. The gir-repository provides GIRs for common
GObject based libraries (such as pango,gtk,gstreamer,clutter,webkit) until
the libraries themselves ship them.

I'd like to specially thank the following people, who made this release
possible: Matthias Clasen for the initial prototype and general design,
J=FCrg Biletter for writing a header scanner, Colin Walters for helping out
everywhere and making sure the release got done. Richard Hult & Tor
Lillqvist for testing and making sure it works on MacOS X & Win32.

See http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection and the README included
in the tarball for more information.

Thanks to all contributors to this release:
  Johan Bilien, J=FCrg Billeter, Christophe Fergeau, Havoc Pennington,
  Andreas Rottmann, Owen Taylor, Tristan Van Berkom, Colin Walters
  Dan Winship

GObject-Introspection requires flex, bison, python (2.5 or higher) and
glib. ffi 3.0.1 or higher can optionally be used.

Reports bugs to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=3Dglib&component=3Dintrospe=
ction
Contract us at: [email protected] or #introspection at irc.gnome.org
Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

Johan Dahlin
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