Fwd: SeedKit library and SeedKit Viewer 0.1 Release Announcement

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= SeedKit library and SeedKit Viewer 0.2 Release =

http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit

 

The SeedKit project is happy to announce the simultaneous 0.2 releases of

SeedKit library and viewer.

Tester, documentation writer, hybrid applications developers

and contributors are welcome to test/modify/contribute. Any help

gladly appreciated.

 

This release mostly focuses on reducing the complexity of having SeedKit

up and running by improving the compilation, documentation and packaging

facilities.

 

Notes:

* This is unstable development release. While it has had a bit of testing,

there are certainly plenty of bugs

 remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production.

* No API compatibility guarantee is provided. The interfaces are susceptible to

change until the 1.0 release.

 

== What's new ? ==

* Lower dependencies versions requirements (depends on Gtk+-2.0)

* The Seedkit library now has proper Gtk-doc

* Debian control file and rpm spec file generation

* SeedKit viewer command-line now uses file path instead of URI

* Fix: example directory is present in dist files

* Seedkit viewer now sports a man page

* Experimental binary packages

 

== What it does ? ==

 

Using SeedKit, a developer might define the user his native application UI

(or a part of it) in pure web standard technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript).

SeedKit might run stand-alone (seedkit-viewer) or embedded within

an existing Gtk+ application (library).

 

== What is it ? ==

 

The SeedKit project currently consists of two modules:

 

* SeedKit library: HTML view Gtk+ widget with access to lower-level libraries

and systems within its Javascript environment. It relies heavily on

the Gtk+ port

of WebKit [0] and Seed [1]. Licensed under the LGPL 3+[2] terms.

 

* SeedKit viewer: a simple command-line viewer/launcher for "web-designed"

native applications. Licensed under the GPL 3+ [3] terms.

 

Examples of hybrid applications are provided in the examples/ directory of the

seedkit-viewer package. Running those might need the installation of

gobject-introspection description packages (debian: gir1.0-*, fedora: *-devel)

 

 

 

== Download ==

 

Source packages:

SeedKit library 0.2:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5746554/seedkit-releases/seedkit-0.2.tar.gz

SeedKit viewer 0.2:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5746554/seedkit-releases/seedkit-viewer-0.2.tar.gz

 

Experimental binary packages are available for this release:

Ubuntu 10.10:

Fedora 14:

 

== Contact ==

 

Concidering its low maturity, expect to experience bugs and misbehavior.

Please report any issue, expectation or remark to the SeedKit mailing-list

at seedkit-list ( -at -) gnome.org [4] until a proper bug-tracker is being set or used.

Of course, drop a mail on the list if you want to participate in the

SeedKit development too.

 

 

[0] http://webkitgtk.org/

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Seed

[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

[3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

[4] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/seedkit-list

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