Re: GObject-Introspection 0.6.2

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/1/22 Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>:
> 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 – Errordomains missing
>    - Bug 562615 – Struct methods missing
>    - Bug 567813 – Everything should be versioned
>    - Bug 555036 – put gtk-doc in GIR
>    - Bug 562467 – Property annotation
>    - Bug 546739 – Introspection should know precise signal parameter types
>    - Bug 563591 – Flags not recognized when there is no introspection data
>    - Bug 563386 – scanner ignores "const" on boxed return values
>    - Bug 566404 – Annotations for GLib
>    - Bug 566419 – Element type of arrays not properly handled in all cases
>    - Bug 566560 – giscanner.transformer.SkipError
>    - Bug 563794 - Redo annotation parsing & applying
>    - Bug 563469 – Arrays not treated correctly in struct offset calculation
>    - Bug 556489 – callback annotations
>    - Bug 563998 – Cache the GIBaseInfo for GTypes
>    - Bug 562545 – Add function taking / returning GValue
>    - Bug 563742 – introspection should record the introduced version of
>    - Bug 562971 – g-ir-scanner failure on libgpod headers
>    - Bug 562289 – Race when removing invalid cache
>    - Bug 559705 – Missing association between static methods and classes
>    - Bug 562022 – gobject-introspection needs python headers
>    - Bug 561617 – 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 – 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 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 releases.
>
> 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,
> Jürg 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, Jürg 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=glib&component=introspection
> Contract us at: gtk-devel-list gnome org or #introspection at irc.gnome.org
> Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
>
> Johan Dahlin
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-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz