Re: Announce - First release of libchamplain's bindings

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

Thanks for the help. I will try to fix the issues as soon as possible.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:

I finally released to CPAN the first release of libchamplain's bindings
(Download here http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Champlain). Libchamplain
consists of a Clutter actor (a canvas) that supports numerous free map

sources such as OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/>,
OpenArialMap<http://www.openaerialmap.org/>and Maps
for free <http://www.maps-for-free.com/>.

A few other things that caught my eye:

• gperl_croak_gerror ignores its first argument (for historical reasons), so the convention is to simply pass in NULL.

I'm taking note.

• You have no tests.  libchamplain's API appears to be very well designed, so the wrappers are mostly trivial.  But still, writing good bindings "blindly", i.e. without tests, is error-prone.

Don't worry I will add unit test coverage in the next days. I'm also missing a lot of documentation and some examples. I really wanted to make the code public as we where lagging behind python and C# :)

Once more, thanks for the help.

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Emmanuel Rodriguez