Re: [ANN] lgi 0.7.0 Lua bindings using gobject-introspection

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Pavel Holejsovsky
<pavel.holejsovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Lua hackers,
>
> lgi 0.7.0 was released.  As usual, it is available either
> from its github homepage[1], [2], luarocks (by 'luarocks install lgi'),
> or it might be available in your favorite distribution.  Note that since
> github stopped file upload service, tarball download now works only
> using tag-archive download.
>
> lgi is gobject-introspection based dynamic Lua binding to GObject
> libraries. It allows using GObject-based libraries directly from Lua. If
> it sounds gibberish to you, ten simply said it allows easy usage of GTK+
> and similar libraries from Lua.
>
> Major feature of this release is subclassing support, which means that
> it is possible to create subclasses of existing GObject classes (incl.
> interfaces support) and override virtual methods in them.  Another
> selling point is support of cairo-1.12 new features (most of them).
> Special thanks to Uli Schlachter for most of the cairo work in this
> release.
>
> Many other people contributed to what lgi is today, in many forms -
> writing patches, reporting bugs, packaging for distributions, providing
> ideas, spreading a word... Many thanks to all of you!
>
> Any comments or other feedback will be greatly appreciated, use github
> issue tracker [3] for reporting bugs.
>
> Happy hacking!
> Pavel
>
> [1] http://github.com/pavouk/lgi
> [2] http://github.com/pavouk/lgi/archive/0.7.0.tar.gz
> [3] http://github.com/pavouk/lgi/issues
>
> 0.7.0 NEWS:
>
>     New feature - subclassing. Allows creating GObject subclasses and
> implementing their virtual methods in Lua.
>     cairo: add support for most 1.12-specific cairo features
>     cairo: create hierarchy for Pattern subclasses
>     cairo: assorted small cairo bugfixes
>     samples: add GDBus client example
>     samples: add GnomeKeyring example
>     samples: GTK: offscreen window demos
>     samples: libsoup simple http server example
>     platforms: added support for darwin/macosx platform
>     platforms: additional fixes for OpenBSD
>     build: Makefiles now respect CFLAGS and LDFLAGS env vars values
>     build: Add Lua version option into Makefile
>     fix: custom ffi enum/flags handling
>     fix: more exotic callback-to-Lua marshalling scenarios
>     fix: do not allow GTK+ and gstreamer to call setlocale() - this
> might break Lua in some locales
>     fix: small adjustments, fixes and additions in Gtk override
>     fix: tons of other small fixes
>
>
>

Hmm, LuaRocks is still giving me version 0.6.2-1. Do I need to update
something, or just wait?

I've been using lgi for UIs for a lot of apps; it's extremely handy,
and Lua is so much nicer than C for writing GTK code.

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