Re: [ANNOUNCE] libchamplain 0.12.1

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 23:11, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've released libchamplain 0.12.1. You can get the code here:
>
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/libchamplain/0.12/libchamplain-0.12.1.tar.xz
>
> This is just a bugfix release so the list of features isn't too
> exciting (unless it fixes some bug you've been experiencing):
>
> * Fix scale drawing (Jiří Techet)
> * Don't call g_thread_init (Colin Walters)
> * Redraw path when its properties change (Jiří Techet)
> * Fix crashes on ChamplainView destruction (Jiří Techet)
> * Fix factory methods for introspection-based bindings (Jiří Techet)
> * Fix wrong zoom actor placement at low zoom levels (Jiří Techet)
>
> There's actually one minor feature
>
> * Add dashed lines drawing to paths (Jiří Techet)
>
> so you can specify different dash patterns and use them for path drawing.
>
> If you have a closer look, I've backported all these fixes from
> mainline to the 0.12 branch so they are mostly identical now. As I
> probably won't have much time to introduce any bigger features during
> this release cycle (the only big missing feature which might influence
> the API significantly is the map rotation), I was thinking that I
> would skip the release of 0.14 and make only updates to the 0.12
> branch.

Just to clarify - the development will still happen on master, I'll
just cherry-pick the patches from there to the 0.12 branch before the
release and make the release from there. This means if you follow
libchamplain's development, you can still use master to have the most
up-to-date sources.

Cheers,

Jiri