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Re: [ANN] guile-gi 0.0.2 released
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Re: [ANN] guile-gi 0.0.2 released |
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:06:32 -0500 |
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---- On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:20:27 -0500 Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote ----
> Hello. I am announcing guile-gi v0.0.2.
>
> guile-gi is a library that autogenerates GNU Guile bindings for
> GObject libraries that provide typelib files. GNU Guile is an
> implementation of Scheme, a Lisp-like language. GObject is a standard
> way of writing C-language libraries with headers and introspection
> information that are intended to allow them to be used from other
> languages. 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 and
> solving the interface between GTK+3 and Guile. Its differentiating
> (mis)feature is that its bindings are created dynamically at runtime
> by parsing typelib files.
>
> This is pre-alpha code. Use at your own risk.
>
> The NEWS for this release is
> - Improvements in C-to-SCM procedure argument conversions
> - Guix skeleton (thanks Jan)
> - More versatile GObject construction (thanks LordYuuma)
> - More tests and demos
>
> The git repo is at
> https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi.git
> The code can be browsed at
> https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi
> The almost non-existent documentation can be read at
> https://spk121.github.io/guile-gi/
> A tarball can be downloaded from
> http://lonelycactus.com/tarball/guile-gi-0.0.2.tar.gz
>
> To read about what this library is supposed to do, check out
> https://spk121.github.io/guile-gi/Getting-Started.html
>
> Regards,
> Mike Gran
>
>
I want to use guile-gi in the future. Thanks for working on this :)