Re: GObject-Introspection 0.6.2

2009/1/22 Johan Dahlin <[email protected]>:
> I'm proud to announce yet another release of GObject-Introspection.

You guys rock!

> 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 ty=
pes
>    - Bug 563591 =96 Flags not recognized when there is no introspection d=
ata
>    - 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 ca=
ses
>    - Bug 566560 =96 giscanner.transformer.SkipError
>    - Bug 563794 - Redo annotation parsing & applying
>    - Bug 563469 =96 Arrays not treated correctly in struct offset calcula=
tion
>    - 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 =
future.
> This is necessary to be able to get documentation inside the gir, an exam=
ple
> 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 bindin=
gs,
> 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 re=
leases.
>
> 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 o=
ut
> 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=3Dintros=
pection
> Contract us at: [email protected] or #introspection at irc.gnome.o=
rg
> Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
>
> Johan Dahlin
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz