New module proposal: Clutter core

[Emmanuele Bassi]

hi everyone;

I'm proposing to move Clutter (core) from the external dependencies to
the Desktop modules.

I guess that, by now, everyone on this list knows what Clutter is; but
for the record:

"""
Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually
rich, portable and animated graphical user interfaces.

Clutter uses OpenGL (and optionally OpenGL ES for use on Mobile and
embedded platforms) for rendering but with an API which hides the
underlying GL complexity from the developer. The Clutter API is intended
to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.
"""

The dependencies:
- GLib and GObject
- Cairo
- Pango
- GDK-Pixbuf (optional, though strongly suggested on Linux)

Current projects in GNOME 2.x that (optionally) depend on Clutter:
- GNOME Games

Future projects in GNOME 3.0 that already depend on Clutter:
- Mutter
- GNOME Shell

Clutter is API stable since 1.0.0, and will remain so for the duration
of the 1.x cycle.

All major distributions package Clutter already.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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[Jaap A. Haitsma]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 17:37, Emmanuele Bassi<ebassi@...> wrote:

> hi everyone;
>
> I'm proposing to move Clutter (core) from the external dependencies to
> the Desktop modules.
>
> I guess that, by now, everyone on this list knows what Clutter is; but
> for the record:
>
> """
> Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually
> rich, portable and animated graphical user interfaces.
>
> Clutter uses OpenGL (and optionally OpenGL ES for use on Mobile and
> embedded platforms) for rendering but with an API which hides the
> underlying GL complexity from the developer. The Clutter API is intended
> to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.
> """
>
> The dependencies:
> - GLib and GObject
> - Cairo
> - Pango
> - GDK-Pixbuf (optional, though strongly suggested on Linux)
>
> Current projects in GNOME 2.x that (optionally) depend on Clutter:
> - GNOME Games
>
> Future projects in GNOME 3.0 that already depend on Clutter:
> - Mutter
> - GNOME Shell
>
> Clutter is API stable since 1.0.0, and will remain so for the duration
> of the 1.x cycle.
>
> All major distributions package Clutter already.
>

Hi,

Are you planning on using GNOME resources? (git, bugzilla, ftp on gnome.org)

http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing
says that you need to do this

Jaap
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[Emmanuele Bassi]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:38 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 17:37, Emmanuele Bassi<ebassi@...> wrote:
> > hi everyone;
> >
> > I'm proposing to move Clutter (core) from the external dependencies to
> > the Desktop modules.
> >

> Are you planning on using GNOME resources? (git, bugzilla, ftp on gnome.org)

Clutter already has a Git repository, there's no need to switch over to
GNOME's (GStreamer, which is in the Desktop library does the same, being
hosted on freedesktop.org); same goes for Bugzilla.

I can definitely willing to push release tarballs on ftp.gnome.org and
push a copy of the API reference on library.gnome.org. I actually wanted
to do so for 1.0, so I'll probably contact the library.g.o maintainer
for that.

> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing 
> says that you need to do this

it says:

"""
Modules must use GNOME FTP for releases. Modules ought to use GNOME
Bugzilla and GNOME Git (there had better be a very good reason for not
doing so, such as freedesktop.org hosted libraries designed to be used
by both GNOME and KDE).
"""

which I daresay Clutter falls under the "good reason for not doing so"
as in "we already have infrastructure in place for it"[0].

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

+++

[0] Though I must admit that switching to GNOME's Bugzilla would be
pretty nice, we do have some Clutter-specific bits in our own Bugzilla
that would make the transition problematic -- first and foremost the
copyright waiver attachment flag for patches.

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[Andre Klapper]

Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Emmanuele Bassi:
> I'm proposing to move Clutter (core) from the external dependencies to
> the Desktop modules.

The GNOME release-team will soon decide about module inclusions for
GNOME 2.30.

To the GNOME developers:
If you have not commented yet, if there is anything to add, if you have
questions to the maintainer: Please comment now.

To the maintainers who have proposed a module or a new dependency:
If there have been changes/improvements/fixes compared to when this
module was proposed: Mention them.
Also see http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing again.

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[Emmanuele Bassi]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 00:07 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Emmanuele Bassi:
> > I'm proposing to move Clutter (core) from the external dependencies to
> > the Desktop modules.
>
> The GNOME release-team will soon decide about module inclusions for
> GNOME 2.30.
>
> To the GNOME developers:
> If you have not commented yet, if there is anything to add, if you have
> questions to the maintainer: Please comment now.
>
> To the maintainers who have proposed a module or a new dependency:
> If there have been changes/improvements/fixes compared to when this
> module was proposed: Mention them.
> Also see http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing again.

Clutter 1.1.2, the first developer snapshot towards the 1.2 stable cycle
has been release last Friday:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2009-October/msg00066.html

I've also started pushing tarballs on download.gnome.org, as well as
clutter-project.org, and Frederic Peters has pushed the API reference on
library.gnome.org.

the 1.1.2 release adds:

  • API for writing layout managers, plus some layout manager classes
  • clean ups in the low-level API
  • work towards making the Text actor play nicely with Input Methods
  • improvements in the documentation, and annotations fixes for the
    introspection data generation
  • use AM_SILENT_RULES if Automake 1.11 is found, otherwise fall back
    to Shave
  • many bug fixes

the plan for releasing 1.2.0 remains the same: end of January/beginning
of February 2010, following the GNOME schedule.

we're still working on various features, like ARGB stages; texture
caching and atlasing; drag and drop interfaces; scrollable actors
interfaces; extension points for modules.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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