Re: [ANNOUNCE] libchamplain 0.6

[Simon Wenner <simon wenner gmail com>]

On 25.05.2010 21:31, Jiří Techet wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 21:18, Simon Wenner<simon wenner gmail com>  wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> >
> > I added Vala bindings for libmemphis yesterday.
> > You can download the latest version (0.2.2) from here:
> > http://wenner.ch/files/public/mirror/memphis/memphis-0.2.2.tar.gz
> > I will add support for it in Champlain, if you don't want to support it.
> >
> >      
> There are also Python bindings for libmemphis here:
>
> http://gitorious.net/pymemphis
>
> In my opinion it would be best to distribute them together with
> libmemphis too so people don't have to download too many separate
> packages. Discuss it with Victor what's his opinion about that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jiri
>
>    
Oh, great. I will add it to the Memphis wiki.
Thanks.

Simon

> > Regards,
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > On 25.05.2010 19:44, Tomaž Vajngerl wrote:
> >      
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sorry.. this patch was to quickly - I forgot to rebuild the .gi file.
> > > Now the problem is that libmemphis also needs Vala bindings if we want
> > > to build the complete bindings. For now I will try to manually remove
> > > libmemphis stuff and I will deal with this later.
> > >
> > > regards, Tomaž
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tomaž Vajngerl<quikee gmail com>    wrote:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have ported Vala bindigns from latest 0.4 to 0.6. Because I am
> > > > unsure in what way you prefer that we send you the patches I will send
> > > > it here. Please include it in the next 0.6 branch release. I will
> > > > prepare patches also for 0.7 development but I would like to
> > > > experiment first how to make automatic bindings building.
> > > >
> > > > regards, Tomaž
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Jiří Techet<techet gmail com>    wrote:
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > libchamplain 0.6 is out. There hasn't been much exciting since 0.5.2;
> > > > > here's a brief list of changes:
> > > > >
> > > > > * Add dummy ChangeLog file (Łukasz Jernaś)
> > > > > * Fix a problem on some machines when tiles are being destroyed (Jiří
> > > > > Techet)
> > > > > * Add minimal demos (Jiří Techet)
> > > > > * Some other minor fixes (Jiří Techet)
> > > > >
> > > > > For more details refer to git log.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is probably the right place to point out several
> > > > > incompatibilities with the 0.4 branch. There have been many changes in
> > > > > the API so it's possible you encounter some errors while compiling
> > > > > your program, but these should be easy to fix. However, there are two
> > > > > gotchas if you are upgrading from the previous stable release mainly
> > > > > because your sources will compile just fine, but when running it,
> > > > > unexpected things happen:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. ChamplainMapSource and ChamplainPolygon inherit from
> > > > > GInitiallyUnowned now and g_object_ref_sink() is called on them. The
> > > > > practical consequence is that you MUST NOT call g_object_unref() once
> > > > > you insert them to ChamplainView, otherwise your application will
> > > > > crash. libchamplain takes ownership of them so you don't have to care
> > > > > about their deallocation any more.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. If you want to create a cached map source, call
> > > > > champlain_map_source_factory_create_cached_source() instead of
> > > > > champlain_map_source_factory_create(). The latter function will just
> > > > > create the bare map source without any caching. So if it seems to you
> > > > > the tiles don't get cached, this is probably the cause.
> > > > >
> > > > > We're late with this release but I'll do my best to follow the gnome
> > > > > schedule for the following release. In a few days I'll send a few
> > > > > ideas what I'd like to have implemented for 0.8.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jiri
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