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G-Wrap NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
Copyright (C) 2014-2015 David Pirotte
Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Andreas Rottmann
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Copyright (C) 2006 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
Initially created by Christopher Lee.
See the end for copying conditions.
Version 1.9.15
- G-Wrap now requires Guile 2.0, allows Guile 2.2.
- Requires autoconf >= 2.61, automake >= 1.12, adding /build-aux.
- We no longer update Changelog, see G-Wrap's git logs instead.
- No free/mark on WCT objects, and remove use of scm_gc_free.
- Use scm_module_variable instead of the deprecated scm_sym2var.
- The documentation has been restructured, updated and fixed to work
with texinfo >= 5.2.
- Removing doc/version.texi - it is generated/updated.
Version 1.9.14
- Guile 2.0 is now supported.
- G-Wrap no longer ships SRFI 34 and SRFI 35 implementations, as
these have been both provided by Guile since 1.8.3.
Version 1.9.13
- Fix the dependency declaration on libffi in the g-wrap-2.0-guile
pkg-config file.
- An alignment issue leading to testsuite failures on sparc has
been fixed.
- The g-wrap-config manpage from the Debian package is now
included in the source, and installed.
Version 1.9.12
- Fix the g-wrap-2.0-guile pkg-config file (bug #25187).
Version 1.9.11
- Fix `double' return value handling on big-endian platforms.
- libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
GCC sources).
Version 1.9.10
- Fix WCT nullable behaviour for 'new' (i.e. non-compat) wrapsets;
there is now a SRFI-39 parameter 'gw-wcts-nullable?' controlling
the nullable behaviour; this parameter is #f by default, and set
to #t when generating compat wrapsets.
Version 1.9.9
- Support per-(type-)instance use of #:allowed-options
- Build fixes:
- Fix example build when libffi is not installed on the system.
- Fix GLib build (was deactivated by accident)
- Distribute and install SRFI 34/35 again
- libffi updated from GCC SVN
- It is now possible to have invisible output arguments; these
won't show up as return values of the Scheme procedure.
Version 1.9.8
- New feature: function flags. At the moment there is a single flag
specifying whether to leave "Guile mode" when calling the wrapper
functions. See the Guile manual on "scm_without_guile" for more
information.
- Don't rely on libc to provide (v)asprintf, take the implementation
from gnulib.
- The minimal GLib bindings now build against GLib 2.x. However,
their use is deprecated in favour of the much more complete GLib
bindings in guile-gnome
(http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/).
Version 1.9.7
- The shared libraries now reside in $(pkglibdir)/modules
(e.g. /usr/lib/g-wrap/modules).
- Users are now allowed to chose in which module generic functions
should be defined.
- New feature: aggregated typespecs. See the node `Wrapping a C
Function' of the manual for details.
- Users can now specify a free and a mark function, as well as an
equality predicate for wrapped C types (WCTs) in `wrap-as-wct!'.
- Improved documentation with an API reference (yet to be finished).
- Several bugfixes.
Version 1.9.6
- Support for size_t and ssize_t data types.
Version 1.9.5
- Bugfixes
+ The minimal GLib wrappers are now installed as (g-wrap gw-glib),
as expected by GnuCash.
+ A problem with generic specializer class lookup has been fixed.
+ A problem with generics specialization and default arguments has
been fixed.
+ A problem with default arguments, when combined with
invisible arguments (such as output arguments) has been fixed.
Version 1.9.4
- Enhanced generics support: now all arguments of methods are
specialized, not only the first one.
- Bugfixes
+ Now ships with (g-wrap gw-wct) compatibilty module needed by
GnuCash at runtime.
+ Fixes for handling output arguments:
- Wrapped functions with void return value and output arguments
now return expected results
- Optional argument count is now correctly computed in the
presence of output arguments
+ The libffi alignment requirements are now honored. This fixes bus
errors on many non-x86 architectures.
+ On big-endian architectures libffi-wrapped functions that return
char now work correctly.
+ Some "uninitialized variable" warnings were fixed in generated code
which caused compiles with GCC 4.0 to fail (Debian Bug#290305).
Version 1.9.3
- Comes with a compatibility layer that allows GnuCash to be built
with it.
- Reverts the enhanced generics support, which was introduced in
1.9.2, since that currently breaks guile-gnome
- Bugfixes
+ g-wrap-2.0-guile.pc is now generated correctly, even if the
internal libffi is used.
+ Types used by constants are now considered when calculating the
set of referenced types in a wrapset. This bug led to missing code
and compile errors when a type defined in another wrapset was used
by only by a constant.
+ On platforms which lack alloca(), the version shipped with
G-Wrap should now build correctly.
Version 1.9.2
- Now comes with libffi included, for systems which lack an libffi
installation
- SRFI module checks now work correctly, even if you do an in-tree build
Version 1.9.1
- API change: destruct-value-cg is now named destroy-value-cg
- Bugfixes
+ A bug in the latent generic code has been fixed
+ The error message for WCP type errors has been fixed
Version 1.9.0
- Complete rewrite; too many changes to list, see the manual for the
new GOOPS-based API and the guile-gnome project for an extended
example.
- New features:
+ Output arguments
+ Default arguments
- G-Wrap should be target-language agnostic, like it was in its
early days.
Version 1.3.3
- Support has been added for GSlists via gw:gslist-of.
- g-wrap's license has been changed to the Lesser GNU Public License.
- g-wrap's code generation has been reworked to eliminate all of the
-Wall warnings when compiling with gcc 3.2.
Version 1.3.2
- Note that this version represents a major overhaul and is quite
incompatible with previous versions -- such is life on the unstable
branch. I plan to rework the docs again shortly, but for now, use
the existing -spec files as examples and send me email when you're
confused.
- Note that all wrapset names starting with "gw-" are reserved by
g-wrap. DON'T use them.
Version 1.3.1
- Version numbers for g-wrap have been rearranged. We'll be using
the Linux kernel version numbering scheme from now on. Stable
versions have even "middle" numbers, i.e. 1.2.1, and unstable
versions have odd middle numbers, i.e. 1.3.4. Note that there was
briefly a 1.1.12 which is actually "newer" than 1.2.1, but that
version is what became 1.3.1. The other reason for the change was
that in 1.3.1 g-wrap's handling of Guile modules changed
substantially, and in a somewhat backward incompatible way.
- g-wrap has been rewritten to drop support for earlier Guile
version's "automagic loading a shared library as a module". When
asked to generate a Guile module for a given g-wrap module, g-wrap
will generate a plain Scheme file that will export all of the
g-wrapped symbols and load the required g-wrap shared library to
provide the wrapped function bindings. This should work across
guile 1.3.4, guile 1.4, and the forthcoming guile 1.6. Note that
the Scheme file must be found in an appropriate place via the
%load-path just like any other guile module, and the directory
containing the g-wrap shared library representing the wrapped code
must be somewhere in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for Guile 1.3.4), and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH for newer Guiles.
- Support has been added for a pre-c-lib-scmcodegen for both g-wrap
modules and types. If registered, the code generated will be
inserted into the Scheme file generated (if any) for the Guile
module representing the g-wrapped code.
- g-wrap has now dropped official support for Guile versions earlier
than 1.3.4.
Version 1.1.11
- added beta changes to info pages -- they're unfinished and still
partially document the old interface, but I'm going under the
assumption that something is better than nothing.
- automake's "make check" now runs the tests in ./test.
- gw_wct_p now recognizes #f as a wcp.
- missing string.h problems should be fixed.
Version 1.1.10
- for enumerations, the automatically generated val->sym funcs now
always return a list if show-all? is not #f, but the list may be
empty. This is better for memq, map, etc.
Version 0.9.8
- Fixed bug which prevented inclusion of new m4 macros into tarfile.
Version 0.9.7
- Fixed guile-1.3 problems. NOTE: Broken release - do not use!
Version 0.9.6
- Fixed const-string bug (thanks to Robert Merkel). Guile version
problem still not fixed - stay tuned.
Version 0.9.5
- fixed problems with guile-1.4.
Version 0.9.4
- Pointer tokens and pointer token arrays have changed semantics.
Now if a return value of one of these types would contain a NULL
pointer, g-wrap just returns #f, and on the other side, passing in
#f as an argument to a function expecting a pointer token or
pointer token array will result in NULL being passed to the
underlying C function. As a result of these changes,
pointer-token-null? is gone. If you still need it, you can just
(define (pointer-token-null? x) (eq? x #f)).
Version 0.9.3
- RPM spec file available now as rpm/spec
Version 0.9.2
- fixed --version command line arg.
Version 0.9.1
- New development version.
- Start officially using something like the linux kernel version
numbering scheme. This means that there will be three digits in
the version number where the first digit is the major version
number. It changes whenever there's a large-scale change, like a
serious backward-incompatibility, the second digit indicates
whether this is considered a stable or development version. When
this is odd, it's a development version. The last digit is the
minor version number. It gets bumped with every release.
- Guile is now required. Even if you're just going to be wrapping
functions for languages other than guile, guile is now the
implementation language of g-wrap itself.
- added new top-level script, g-wrap. This replaces all of the
target language specific scripts. See the info pages for usage
details.
- added conditionally compiled long long support for guile wrappers.
- added g-wrap-config script to provide appropriate compile options
for programs using g-wrap. See the info pages for usage details.
- added support for handling pointers to C structs on the guile side.
This is in flux, so don't use it unless you're prepared to possibly
rewrite everything when things settle. See the info pages for
details.
- added support for a 'cleanup option to new types that lets you
specify how an argument should be cleaned up (generally this means
something like "free" for C APIs) whenever cleanup is needed. This
works in conjunction with a new ability to enable/disable cleanup
for types by default, and for arguments/return values on a
per-function basis. See the info pages for details.
- Add support for automatically generating a C header from the g-wrap
spec file. This can be useful if you want the g-wrap file to be
the ultmate authority about the API. See the info documentation
for gwrap-generate-wrapped-header.
- Add support for a guile-prefix to the gwrap-open-module call. This
option will allow you to specify a prefix that will be appended to
the guile-side names. This may be useful if you don't want to
create a module (which you can do with the (guile-module #f) option
to gwrap-open-module.
Version 0.8.1
- Updates to get G-Wrap to build equivalent modules for RScheme and
Guile from the same specification file
- now, pointer '*'s are not assumed to be necessary when converting
Guile smob-values to native C types
Version 0.8.0
- Support added for RScheme
- Changes in the name of some functions
gwrap-scan-source-file (was gwrap-c-scan-source-file)
gwrap-open-module (was gwrap-c-open-file)
gwrap-assume-types-wrapped (was gwrap-c-assume-types-wrapped)
gwrap-close-module (was gwrap-c-close-file)
- Some functions are removed:
gwrap-c-output-c
gwrap-c-output-h
gwrap-c-output-doc
Version 0.3.9
- Prettier and more useful html documentation is generated from input
files
- Better C++ support
Version 0.3.8
- Better ANISfication
- Better C++ support
Version 0.3.7:
- Improved configuration process
- Integrated g-translate into g-wrap
Version 0.3.6:
- Switched to automake/autoconf/libtool configuration
Version 0.3.5:
- Generates an html file describing wrapped library
Version 0.3.4:
- Option call-on-init in gwrap-c-open-file allows a function to be
called upon intialization of the library wrapper.
Version 0.3:
- A capability for generating dynamically-linkable Guile modules
- Automatic support for exporting functions with more than 10
arguments, without modification of libguile.
- No longer relies on Slib (slib dependencies removed from
output-file.scm, and g-wrap.scm)
- Made generated *.h files more C++ friendly
- New options for wrapping structures which are passed by value
rather than by reference, and for generating C++ code.
- new-function: New interface, automatically adds description to an
assq list in variable "*gw:descriptions*", complete with a
prototype and list of parameter and return types.
- Renamed many functions -- the interface is pretty new overall.
define-constant --> new-constant
c-file-include-local-header --> gwrap-c-include-local-header
c-file-include-global-header --> gwrap-c-include-global-header
open-c-file --> gwrap-c-open-file
output-c --> gwrap-c-output-c
output-h --> gwrap-c-output-h
make-wrapper-c-type --> gwrap-c-assume-types-wrapped (simpler interface)
- Code for generating Guile wrapper code is now a Guile module
- g-wrap-guile is now written to use Guile interpreter rather than
SCM
- types are now given symbolic keys rather than being returned in
structures
- new function formats:
(add-type scheme-sym c-type-str fn-to-scm fn-from-scm fn-isa)
(add-new-type scheme-sym the-type)
(new-type scheme-sym c-name c-print-name c-die-name c-eq-name . options)
- If options contains (c-gc-name "fname"), fname is called for
protecting objects from GC
- If options contains (pass-c-ptr? #f), type is passed as struct
rather than pointer to struct
- gwrap-c-open-file: Accepts options telling it to generate a C++
file and/or code for a dynamically linkable module
For older news, see the file ONEWS.
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