[ANNOUNCE] PyClutter 0.8.0

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

hi everyone;

the Python bindings for the Clutter core and integration libraries have
been released. this release of the Python bindings map the Clutter 0.8
API cycle.

Download is available at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/pyclutter/0.8/

MD5 checksums:

  a88d49fa931dbfb8d9d4137ace32d041  pyclutter-0.8.0.tar.gz
  013b79a4094013295f491eb07be6bd01  pyclutter-0.8.0.tar.bz2

Requirements:

  * GLib 2.14.0 or higher
  * GTK+ 2.10.0 or higher
  * Clutter 0.8.2 or higher
  * PyCairo
  * PyGObject 2.12.1 or higher
  * Python 2.4.0 or higher

Optional requirements:

  * GStreamer >= 0.10
  * PyGStreamer
  * GTK+ >= 2.10
  * PyGTK

This release is supporting the following Clutter releases:

        clutter-core    0.8.2
        clutter-gst     0.8.0
        clutter-gtk     0.8.2
        clutter-cairo   0.8.0

Documentation:

an incomplete API reference is available at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/pyclutter/stable/

Python developers are encouraged to submit patches to increase the
quality and coverage of the documentation.

Release notes:

IMPORTANT: The cluttercairo, cluttergst and cluttergtk submodules of
clutter have been moved into their own modules. In order to import them,
the import directive must be changed from:

        from clutter import cluttercairo
        from clutter import cluttergst
        from clutter import cluttergtk

to:

        import cluttercairo
        import cluttergst
        import cluttergtk

The order of the import directives is also relevant, because of the
required initialization process of the underlying C libraries. The
correct order for importing the clutter and related modules is:

        first ↑
              | import cluttergtk
              | import cluttergst
              | import clutter
              | import cluttercairo
         last ↓

If you are importing the gst module, you must import it after the
cluttergst module.

If you are importing the gtk module, you must import it after the
cluttergtk module.

* Require clutter core >= 0.8.2
* Require clutter suite >= 0.8
* Split up the clutter submodules into their own modules, to
  allow proper initialization for cluttergtk and cluttergst
* Initial support for the COGL path API
* Removed the tidy submodule
* Documentation has been regenerated but it's still incomplete
  and unfinished

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually
rich and animated graphical user interfaces. Clutter uses OpenGL or
OpenGL/ES to provide hardware acceleration to user interfaces. Clutter
can be used as a canvas or as a base for writing a full toolkit on both
desktop and embedded devices. Clutter is portable on various platforms,
being developed on Linux and tested on Windows and OSX with native
ports.

Clutter has integration libraries for quickly developing applications
with GTK+, GStreamer and Cairo.

PyClutter is the collective name for the Python bindings for the Clutter
core API and integration libraries

The PyClutter bindings allow you to write canvas-based applications
in a Pythonic and object-oriented way, freeing you from having to care
about the casting and the memory management of the original Clutter C
API, and yet remaining close to its spirit.

More information about Clutter is available at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center