Seed 0.8 released

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Today I am happy once again to announce the release of Seed 0.8

"Bringing It All Back Home".

 

Tarballs are available at

http://download.gnome.org/sources/seed/0.8/

 

For those not familiar, Seed (http://live.gnome.org/Seed), is a

library that bridges WebKit's JavaScriptCore interpreter, with the

GNOME platform. Using GObject-introspection, Seed provides automatic

bindings around most GObject style libraries. In addition Seed has an

API, which in combination with GObject-introspection can be used to

easily enable your GObject application to be made extensible with

JavaScript (This is currently realized in the Seed extensions for

epiphany). In addition to GNOME libraries, Seed can also access

OpenGL, a significant portion of the POSIX API (based on Python's OS

module) and various C libraries, such as cairo, libxml, or GNU

Readline. Seed also has a fairly complete set of (client side for

now) DBus bindings. More modules can easily be written through a C

interface.

 

Bugs are welcome in the 'seed' component on GNOME bugzilla.

 

Seed has a documentation site at http://gnome.org/~racarr/seed

 

This release is the first to depend on 'gnome-js-common', which

contains modules and bits of code/tests useful for both GJS and

Seed. Some other highlights of this release include:

 

* Cairo bindings.

* Search path works with prefix.

* Module documentation improved, and moved to docbook.

* New GtkBuilder module for automatic signal connection.

* A few leaks fixed.

* Ability to set non GObject properties through JSON constructors

improves design in many cases.

 

This release is a little hard to summarize, so I would suggest interested

individuals read the "full" changelog, below.

 

== Seed 0.8, "Bringing It All Back Home" (2009.05.27) ==

* Importer now supports constructing directory objects,

to avoid manipulation of search path.

Importer directory objects now support property enumeration.

* Fix small leak in GObject wrapper initialization.

(and also simplify the process).

* GtkBuilder module to handle GtkBuilder automatic signal connection.

* *_init methods now take normal arrays (by value)

in addition to the special Seed.argv array.

* GObject constructors (init methods) now take "self" as a parameter.

* Passing non gobject-properties to a GObject

constructor will set the properties on the GObject wrapper.

* Module documentation rewritten in docbook, and builds one nice manual.

* New Cairo module, supports most of the cairo API, with

automatic memory management and all that great stuff.

* Fix a reference count leak introduced in the last few releases.

in some cases with non INITIALLY_UNOWNED objects.

* Some work on ClutterPad examples, and writing examples

which live inside of it. (lots of fun to play with!,

cairo example...fun spring example...ClutterBox2D)

* Working around a WebKit bug (which is actually fixed in SVN now),

should prevent a crash that happened sometimes with C modules.

* Clutter animatev wrapper looks up property type wrapper now,

so as to avoid having to pass [GObject.TYPE_FOO, bar]

* Implement some varargs functions which can be implemented

on top of non vararg variants in JavaScript extensions.

* JSON stuff (stringify,parse) is now in gnome-js-common.

* Add seed_value_to_format to API, for converting an Array

of SeedValue based on a format string.

* Install seed-debug.h so modules can make use of it.

* Search path now works in nonstandard prefix, default search path includes

gnome-js-common moduledir (from pkgconfig).

* Support to/from Date objects to time_t.

* The usual round of example cleanup/improvements.

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