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Re: [ANN] guile-gi v0.2.2 released
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Re: [ANN] guile-gi v0.2.2 released |
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Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:27:59 -0500 |
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---- On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:55:15 -0500 Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote ----
> On behalf of the Guile-GI team, I am pleased to announce the release
> of Guile-GI v0.2.2.
>
> guile-gi is a library that autogenerates GNU Guile bindings for
> GObject libraries that provide typelib files. GObject is a standard
> way of writing C-language libraries with headers and introspection
> information. Typelib files are GObject's standard way to provide that
> introspection information. Among the GObject libraries are GTK3 and
> WebKitGTK2, two popular GUI libraries.
>
> In short, this library hopes to make GTK3 and WebKit2 available to
> Guile.
>
> This particular library is one of several different attempts at
> solving the interface between GTK+3 and Guile. Its differentiating
> feature is that its bindings are created dynamically at runtime by
> parsing typelib files.
>
> This project is theoretically similar to the g-golf project; however,
> while g-golf tries to avoid too much C, this project provides a
> library written in C that enables the use of the introspection
> functionality provided by GObject-Introspection.
>
> Guile-GI is of alpha quality. Its API is stabilizing, and there is
> no plan to change it; but, it is too early to guarantee stability.
>
> The big theme for this point release was to make callbacks work
> better.
>
> The NEWS
> - Add Guile 3.0 to configure
> - Callback fixes (#68, #70)
> - Prevent garbage collection of callbacks before use
> - Fix unpacking of integers in callbacks
> - Harmonize the calling convention of callback parameters
> with the calling convention of introspected C functions
> - Some support for GHashTable types (#56)
> - Improvements to autogenerated documentation (#50)
> - Bug fixes
>
> A tarball can be downloaded
> http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile_gi-0.2.2.tar.gz
> MD5 a63adfee7f80ccf4175f51ce41b0a99a guile_gi-0.2.2.tar.gz
>
> The repository and bug tracker can be found at
> https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi
>
> If you're uncomfortable using the github bug tracker, you can always
> e-mail me directly.
>
> To read about what this library is supposed to do, check out
> https://spk121.github.io/guile-gi/Getting-Started.html
>
> Regards,
> Mike Gran
The documentation structure already makes me feel like I should try it out :)