[Vala] [ANNOUNCE] Libgee 0.8.3 - GObject collection library

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

We are very pleased to announce version 0.8.3 of Libgee, the GObject 
collection library.

Libgee 0.8.3 is now available for download at:
    http://download.gnome.org/sources/libgee/0.8/


Also please note that now Libgee has its own mailing-list
    http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libgee-list
and its own #gee IRC channel.


New in 0.8.3
------------

  * Various fixes to PriorityQueue
  * Small fix for Gee.LinkedList.Iterator.next
  * Fix memory leak in HazardPointer implementation
  * Fix handling NULLs in HazardPointer
  * Use portable sed command for GObject Introspection


Libgee is a collection library providing GObject-based interfaces and 
classes for commonly used data structures.

Libgee provides the following interfaces:

     * Traversable
           o Iterable
                 + Collection
                       # List
                             * BidirList
                       # Set
                             * SortedSet
                                 o BidirSortedSet
                       # MultiSet
                       # Queue
                             * Deque
                 + Map
                       # SortedMap
                             * BidirSortedMap
           o Iterator
                 + BidirIterator
                       # BidirListIterator
                 + ListIterator
                       # BidirListIterator
     * MultiMap

The ArrayList, ArrauQueue, ConcurrentLinkedList, HashSet, HashMap, HashMultiSet,
HashMultiMap, LinkedList, PriorityQueue, TreeSet, TreeMap,
TreeMultiSet, and TreeMultiMap classes provide a reasonable sample
implementation of those interfaces. In addition, a set of abstract
classes are provided to ease the implementation of new collections.

Around that, the API provide means to retrieve read-only views, 
efficient sort algorithms, simple, bi-directional or index-based mutable 
iterators depending on the collection type.

Libgee is written in Vala and can be used like any GObject-based C 
library. It's planned to provide bindings for further languages.


More information about Vala is available at

         http://live.gnome.org/Libgee

Maciej Marcin Piechotka