Re: [ANNOUNCE] libchamplain 0.12.4

[Robert Park <robru gottengeography ca>]

Congrats on this release! Negative diffstats always make me super happy ;-)

Sorry I didn't have time to test it, I've been super swamped with my
own projects!

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It took quite a lot of silence since the last release in July last
> year (mainly because of me being rather busy and also because nobody
> complained too much) but finally there's a new release of
> libchamplain.
>
> Despite being a minor-version-number release, actually quite a lot of
> code was changed. This was mainly because libchamplain has been
> updated to use the "modern" Clutter API and get rid of all the
> depreciation warnings. So libchamplain depends on Clutter 1.12 now.
> The main commit was something like -2500/+500 lines of code so quite a
> nice cleanup.
>
> Speaking of cleanups, while migrating to the new Clutter, I realized
> that I just keep getting lost in how ChamplainView handles coordinates
> and decided to make some further cleanups which hopefully resulted in
> much simpler and easier-to-read code in ChamplainView.
>
> As a part of the spring cleaning, I have also removed the libchamplain
> git repository from Gitorious. It seems nobody is really using it, I
> keep forgetting to push the changes there and when someone submits a
> patch there, I'm not notified about the change. It's always possible
> to re-create the repository there when needed in the future.
>
> Taking into account the amount of changed lines in this release, there
> might be some bugs. But since nobody complained since the announcement
> last week, I can expect that either there are no big bugs or that
> nobody is using libchamplain any more...
>
> ...which actually doesn't seem to be the case since Zeeshan Ali, who
> also contributed many patches into this release, started working on a
> new gnome mapping application:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/Maps
>
> Good luck with the app!
>
> Here's a brief list of changes made in this libchamplain release:
>
> * Add dependency on clutter 1.12 and fix all the depreciation warnings
>   (Jiří Techet, Zeeshan Ali)
> * Many internal cleanups and minor improvements (Jiří Techet)
> * Fix gtk and libsoup depreciation warnings (Jiří Techet)
> * Deprecate CHAMPLAIN_MAP_SOURCE_OSM_OSMARENDER and CHAMPLAIN_MAP_SOURCE_OAM
>   which don't exist any more and remove them from the factory (Jiří Techet)
> * Deprecate ChamplainCustomMarker (Jiří Techet)
> * Deprecate champlain_view_bin_layout_add() (Zeeshan Ali)
> * Fix blurry map when view resized (Jiří Techet)
> * Use more neutral map background color (Jiří Techet)
> * Add champlain_view_get_bounding_box() and
> champlain_bounding_box_covers() (Zeeshan Ali)
> * Add a possibility to set a background texture (Nirbheek Chauhan)
> * Add Mapquest Open Aerial map source (Zeeshan Ali)
> * Added the possibility to use TMS correct y-axis (Samuel Gyger)
> * Minor fixes and improvements (Zeeshan Ali, Evan Nemerson, Jiří Techet)
>
> As always, the tarball can be downloaded here:
>
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/libchamplain/0.12/libchamplain-0.12.4.tar.xz
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Jiri
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