@@ -3,6 +3,40 @@ Rb++, rbgccxml, and rice compose a suite of tools that make wrapping C++ libraries into Ruby extensions as simple as possible. This is built as a replacement for SWIG-Ruby. +== What's New + +rb++: + - Core builder and writer systems rewritten to be much cleaner and easier to work with + - Functions with Callbacks + - Automatic Typedef lookup of argument and return types + - Class constants + - Class instance variables + - Auto generation of allocation strategies + - Wrapping anonymous enumerations as constants + - Command line arguments: --clean, --console, -v, -q + - Caching to speed up parsing and building phases + - Rice::Director + - Exposing Default arguments + +rbgccxml: + - 1.9 compatible! + - Switched parsing from hpricot to libxml-ruby + - ArrayTypes + - FunctionType (function pointers) + - Class consts and instance variables + - Node#to_s => Node#to_cpp + - Node#file_name => Node#file + - Arguments have values + +plus numerous tweaks, bug fixes, etc. See the commit log for all the details. There have been +a lot of API changes in both libraries since the last release. + +== Notes + +rbgccxml is 1.9 compatible, however, rb++ is not because Rice is not quite there. + +rb++ is also not functional on Windows at this time, would appreciate it if someone wanted to look into this, otherwise I'm going to wait for the One-Click team to finish their work on buildling Ruby with mingw. + == Project Documentation: http://rbplusplus.rubyforge.org ANNOUNCE 37c6f09fca23439e10d3df4df25e49085df8c33d Jason Roelofs jameskilton@gmail.com http://github.com/jameskilton/rbplusplus/commit/897bed7f683c7afe551f73c1b459d7fca4f4c12b 897bed7f683c7afe551f73c1b459d7fca4f4c12b 2009-10-21T11:13:35-07:00 2009-10-21T11:13:35-07:00 List of what's new 2703d9bc4931c0f1b2397f44366de6f7510913ef Jason Roelofs jameskilton@gmail.com