GObject-Introspection 0.5.0

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I'm proud to announce the initial release of GObject-Introspection.

Colin Walters and I have been hacking madly on it for the past couple of

weeks and we have finally reached a point to where we're ready for more

more users.

 

Tarball can be found at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gobject-introspection/0.5/

 

The goal of the project is to describe the APIs and collect them in

a uniform, machine readable format. The initial target is language bindings,

which are heavy users of this kind of data.

 

Interesting parts of this release includes:

 

* GIR - An XML format used to describe APIs

* Typelib - a way to serialize GIR to disk

* libgirepository - C API to access typelib

 

GIR format is fairly stable, but expect small parts to change.

The typelib format is not complete and will be extended upon in future releases.

 

There are Perl, Python and Java bindings publicly available using

GObject-Introspection. The gir-repository provides GIRs for common

GObject based libraries (such as pango,gtk,gstreamer,clutter,webkit) until

the libraries themselves ship them.

 

I'd like to specially thank the following people, who made this release

possible: Matthias Clasen for the initial prototype and general design,

Jürg Biletter for writing a header scanner, Colin Walters for helping out

everywhere and making sure the release got done. Richard Hult & Tor

Lillqvist for testing and making sure it works on MacOS X & Win32.

 

See http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection and the README included

in the tarball for more information.

 

All contributors to this release:

Jürg Billetter

Gustavo Carneiro

Matthias Clasen

Philip van Hoof

Richard Hult

Tor Lillqvist

Havoc Pennington

Torsten Schönfeld

Rob Taylor

Colin Walters

 

GObject-Introspection requires flex, bison, python (2.5 or higher) and

glib. ffi 3.0.1 or higher can optionally be used.

 

Reports bugs to

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=glib&component=introspection

Contract us at: gtk-devel-list ( -at -) gnome.org or #introspection at irc.gnome.org

Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

 

Johan Dahlin

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