[ANNOUNCE] PyClutter 1.0.0 - stable release

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

The Python bindings for the Clutter core and integration libraries have
been released. this release of the Python bindings map the Clutter 1.0
API cycle.

Download is available at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/pyclutter/1.0/

MD5 checksums:

  1cfbb64eceef6828e47e9a64689ffa41  pyclutter-1.0.0.tar.bz2
  2e99aaf6100d609b2c0da1655d7c8693  pyclutter-1.0.0.tar.gz

Requirements:

  * GLib 2.16.0 or higher
  * GTK+ 2.10.0 or higher
  * Clutter 1.0.0 or higher
  * PyCairo 1.0.2 or higher
  * PyGObject 2.12.1 or higher
  * PyGTK
  * Python 2.5.0 or higher

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:

* This is the first stable release
* Requires Clutter core >= 1.0.0
* The bindings for Clutter-GStreamer and Clutter-GTK have been dropped
from the PyClutter module, and they will be shipped separately as
PyClutter-GStreamer (pyclutter-gst) and PyClutter-GTK (pyclutter-gtk).
The new modules are already available as separate repositories.

Changes from 0.8:

* Require Clutter core >= 1.0.0
* Provide better bindings for the Cogl API
* Add more examples ported from the clutter core interactive tests
* Dropped the in-tree bindings of clutter-gtk and clutter-gst: you will
  have to install pyclutter-gtk and pyclutter-gst respectively to be able
  to import cluttergtk and cluttergst.
* Allow accessing child properties for clutter.Container
* Allow iterating over the children of a clutter.Container using the
  native Python iterator support
* Allow creating custom ChildMeta classes from Python
* Mark the classes removed from upstream Clutter as "deprecated"; trying
  to instantiate one of the deprecated classes will result in the equivalent
  class in Clutter 1.0 to be created and a warning printed out on the console
* Override the __repr__ and __str__ methods for clutter.Color: the former
  will print out a string that can be used through eval() to create a copy
  of the color; the latter will print out the hexadecimal representation of
  the color.
* Override the __str__ method of clutter.Event: it will now print more
  information on the event (type, time, source actor) and per-event type
  fields (button, key, related actor, etc.).
* Deprecated clutter.stage_get_default() in favour of an optional argument
  to clutter.Stage(); calling:

    >>> clutter.Stage(default=True)

  will return the default Stage singleton; the default argument is optional
  and it defaults to False.
* Allow passing the following values to methods accepting a clutter.Color:
    - a clutter.Color (e.g.: clutter.Color(255, 0, 0, 255))
    - a 4-tuple of RGBA values (e.g.: (255, 0, 0, 255))
    - a hexadecimal representation of the color (e.g.: '#ff0000ff')

Many thanks to:

  Bastian Winkler (new maintainer of PyClutter)
  Young-Ho Cha
  Chideok Hwang

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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, Mozilla and other libraries.

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.

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Emmanuele Bassi, Senior Engineer        | emmanuele bassi intel com
Intel Open Source Technology Center     | http://oss.intel.com