From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: "Mike Gran" <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] guile-gi 0.0.2 released
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:06:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16b61e602bc.cd60c16622058.8110357290393376351@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190616192027.GA15008@spikycactus.attlocal.net>
---- On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:20:27 -0500 Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> 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 :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-16 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-16 19:20 [ANN] guile-gi 0.0.2 released Mike Gran
2019-06-16 19:40 ` Mike Gran
2019-06-16 20:06 ` sirgazil [this message]
2019-06-16 20:49 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-17 11:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-17 13:09 ` Mike Gran
[not found] <mailman.81.1560787249.14391.guile-user@gnu.org>
2019-06-17 22:39 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=16b61e602bc.cd60c16622058.8110357290393376351@zoho.com \
--to=sirgazil@zoho.com \
--cc=guile-user@gnu.org \
--cc=spk121@yahoo.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).