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ANNOUNCE: libchamplain 0.4.4 released

From:  Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-luc-AT-pierlux.com>
To:  libchamplain-list-AT-gnome.org, gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  ANNOUNCE: libchamplain 0.4.4 released
Date:  Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:59 -0500
Message-ID:  <1264733759.18072.12.camel@oxygen>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

The "make it go faster baby" release.

This release attacked performance issues, it should load faster and feel
faster when dragging the map.

What is it ?
==============
A Clutter based map ClutterActor and Gtk+ widget to display street maps,
cycle maps or other maps.  libchamplain comes with eye candy.

Source:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/libchamplain/0.4/libcha...

The latest reviewed code is always available from:
git://git.gnome.org/libchamplain

libchamplain 0.4.4 (2010-01-28)
===============================

Stable release
GObject-introspection, Python (Victor Godoy Poluceno) and Perl
(Emmanuel Rodriguez) bindings are in a working state.

Fixes:
* 580372: Get rid of champlain_view_set_size, replaced by
  clutter_actor_set_size (Pierre-luc Beaudoin)
* Fix the Python demos to use ChamplainEmbed instead of ClutterEmbed
(Lorenzo Masini)
* Ship all the python .defs files in tarballs, fixes the Python bindings
  (Lorenzo Masini)
* Simplification of the internal licence displaying code (Pierre-Luc
Beaudoin)
* Optimize the initialization process, now loads only the needed tiles
  (Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)
* Limit further more the number of times the scale is redrawn
(Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)
* Limit the internal operations that happen when the user moves
(Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)
* Async loading of tiles from the cache (Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)
* Use the shared tile cache paths when built with --enable-maemo
(Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)
* 606393: The display of tiles looks very programmatic, they now load in
spiral order (Jason Woofenden)
* Limit the number of times notify::latitude and notify::longitude are
emited (Pierre-Luc Beaudoin)

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