[pygccxml-development] ANN: version 0.8.5

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

Hi. I am going to release next version of pygccxml and Py++. I think
they accumulated
enough features and bug fixes:

Py++ changes:

New functionality\features:
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* Added "Function Transformation" feature
* Added new functionality, which allows you to control messages and warnings
* Adding new algorithm, which controls the registration order of the functions
* Added new "Py++" defined "return_pointee_value" call policy
* Opaque types are fully supported

Small features:
---------------------

* It is possible to configure "Py++" to generate faster ( compilation time )
  code for indexing suite version 2. See API documentation.

* The algorithm, which finds all class properties was improved. Now it provides
  a better way to control properties creation. A property that would
hide another
  exposed declaration will not be registered\\created.

* Work around for "custom smart pointer as member variable" Boost.Python bug
  was introduced.

pygccxml changes:

New functionality\features:
-------------------------------------

* Added new functionality: "I depend on them". Every declaration can report
  types and declarations it depends on. This functionality helps code
generators.
  For example, Py++, the Boost.Python code generator, uses it to
verify that all
  relevant declarations were exposed.

* Declarations, read from GCC-XML generated file, could be saved in cache.

Small features
---------------------
* New type traits have been added:

   * is_bool

* Small improvement to algorithm, which extracts value_type
  ( mapped_type ) from "std" containers.

* Few aliases to long method name were introduced:

    scopedef_t.variable  => scopedef_t.var
    scopedef_t.variables  => scopedef_t.vars
    scopedef_t.member_function  => scopedef_t.mem_fun
    scopedef_t.member_functions  => scopedef_t.mem_funs
    scopedef_t.free_function  => scopedef_t.free_fun
    scopedef_t.free_functions  => scopedef_t.free_funs

Bug fixes
--------------

* "signed char" and "char" are two different types. This bug was fixed and
  now pygccxml treats them right.

* Fixing bug related to array size and cache.

This release should not introduce any backward computability problems.
Please test both projects and report any problems you have.

Thanks

-- 
Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
http://www.language-binding.net/