[ANNOUNCE] PyGI 0.6.0

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk>]

Hi all,

this new release brings several new features and bug fixes and we feel
application authors will have an easier time porting their software to
use introspection. To mark this usability milestone we have started
the 0.6.x series.

Apart from further feature and stability work, you can expect
compatibility with Python 3.x in a future 0.6.x release.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygi/0.6/pygi-0.6.0.tar.gz

This release adds a dependency on gobject-introspection 0.6.14 or newer.

== Changes ==

* Added overrides for better compatibility with the old API:
GtkUIManager and GtkActionGroup
* Improved callback support
* Support for G*Array arguments
* Support for caller-allocates

== Join the effort! ==

Any feedback is welcome and the PyGI community will be happy to assist
any porting efforts in the mailing lists mentioned below, in the #pygi
IRC channel in Freenode and in GNOME's bugzilla:

Internals development mailing list:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/python-hackers-list

Application development mailing list:
http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk

Known issues: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=pygi&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&version=unspecified

Enter a new report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=pygi

Main wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/PyGI

Regards,

Tomeu

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com> (10)

   * support for caller-allocates annotations for structs
   * don't import gobject directly in the tests
   * fix up Builder override, add new override methods, and add unit tests
   * check refcounting of callback userdata in unit tests
   * correctly handle floating objects in gtk
   * Return an empty list when a NULL GList and GSList is returned
   * fix NULL array unit tests and fix crasher when sending None as an array
   * don't error out on methods with callbacks as return type
   * reset sys.argv to the return value of Gtk.init_check
   * add GtkUIManager and GtkActionGroup overrides

Steve Frécinaux <code istique net> (1)

   * Fix warning in configure.

Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk> (12)

   * Pre-release version bump 0.6.0
   * Wrap C arrays in structs as GArrays before converting to Python
   * Install pre-commit hook that checks the code changes for style conformance
   * Apply consistent whitespace formatting with:
   * Prepend gi.repository to the __module__ attribute of wrapper classes.
   * Correctly identify at creation time:
   * Dont complain if another base has implemented the method
   * Improve handling of subclasses without __gtype_name__
   * Add support for out args in callbacks
   * Add support for GArray args
   * GTypeInterface cannot be unrefed
   * If None is passed to an interface which takes an object, convert it to NULL