Re: Gee [ANNOUNCE] Libgee 0.8.0 - GObject collection library

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 22:14 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> We are very pleased to announce version 0.8.0 of Libgee, the GObject 
> collection library.
> 
> Libgee 0.8.0 is now available for download at:
>     http://download.gnome.org/sources/libgee/0.8/
> 
> 
> Also please note that now Libgee has its own mailing-list
>     http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libgee-list
> and its own #gee IRC channel.
> 
> 
> New in 0.8.0
> ------------
> 
>   * Fix Traversable.chop (bug #684348)
>   * Remove unnecessary method
>   * Update README
>   * Move everything to GenericAccessor
> 

Yay. I knew I've forgotten about something. Above are changes since
0.7.90 instead of 0.6 branch. The cool new features include:

 * Functional iterators enabling users to write efficient and clear code
in functional style
 * Introducing the lock-free list implementation (EXPERIMENTAL for 0.8)
 * Adding ArrayQueue
 * Introduction of Lazy values
 * Allow to query about state of iterator
 * Port to Vala mixins enabling future-proofing of ABI and API

> Libgee is a collection library providing GObject-based interfaces and 
> classes for commonly used data structures.
> 
> Libgee provides the following interfaces:
> 
>      * Traversable
>            o Iterable
>                  + Collection
>                        # List
>                              * BidirList
>                        # Set
>                              * SortedSet
>                                  o BidirSortedSet
>                        # MultiSet
>                        # Queue
>                              * Deque
>                  + Map
>                        # SortedMap
>                              * BidirSortedMap
>            o Iterator
>                  + BidirIterator
>                        # BidirListIterator
>                  + ListIterator
>                        # BidirListIterator
>      * MultiMap
> 
> The ArrayList, ArrauQueue, ConcurrentLinkedList HashSet, HashMap, HashMultiSet,
> HashMultiMap, LinkedList, PriorityQueue, TreeSet, TreeMap,
> TreeMultiSet, and TreeMultiMap classes provide a reasonable sample
> implementation of those interfaces. In addition, a set of abstract
> classes are provided to ease the implementation of new collections.
> 
> Around that, the API provide means to retrieve read-only views, 
> efficient sort algorithms, simple, bi-directional or index-based mutable 
> iterators depending on the collection type.
> 
> Libgee is written in Vala and can be used like any GObject-based C 
> library. It's planned to provide bindings for further languages.
> 
> 
> More information about Vala is available at
> 
>          http://live.gnome.org/Libgee
> 
> Maciej Marcin Piechotka
>