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* Announcing libffi 3.0
@ 2008-02-15 20:20 Anthony Green
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From: Anthony Green @ 2008-02-15 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm pleased to announce a software release 10 years in the 
making:                                                         
                                                                                                                            

                          libffi 
3.0                                                                                        

                                                                                                                            

libffi is a portable foreign function interface 
library.                                                                   
                                                                                                                            

The last release of libffi, version 1.2, was released almost a 
decade                                                       
ago in October, 1998.  Shortly thereafter we started maintaining 
it                                                        
within the GCC source repository along with the help of the 
GCC                                                            
developers.  Libffi's primary customer at the time was the GNU 
java                                                        
runtime library, libgcj, and libffi benefited tremendously from 
the                                                        
contributions of the GCC 
community[1].                                                                                         

                                                                                                                            

                           
However...                                                                                       

                                                                                                                            

Over the course of the last decade, and especially within the 
past                                                         
couple of years, many projects have picked up the old libffi 
release                                                       
or extracted it from the GCC sources for their own purposes[2].  
There                                                     
now exist a multitude of libffi forks, and for no good reason 
other                                                        
than there not being independent stand-alone libffi 
releases.                                                              
                                                                                                                            

libffi 3.0 represents the resumption of regular, 
independent,                                                              
stand-alone releases of libffi for all to 
consume.                                                                          

                                                                                                                            

libffi 3.0 is the result of bundling the latest libffi sources 
from                                                        
the GCC tree along with new configury, enhancements, documentation 
and                                                     
testing.                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                            

libffi will continue to be maintained in both the GCC tree as well 
as                                                      
the original libffi cvs repository.  Patches are welcome to 
either                                                         
project, as we intend to perform two-way merges between the trees.        

Visit the libffi project site at http://sourceware.org/libffi 
for                                                          
details.                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                            

Download source release 
here:                                                                                               

                                                                                                                            

         
ftp://sourceware.org:/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.0.tar.gz                     

Enjoy...

Anthony Green
green@redhat.com                                       

[1] A special "thank you" goes out to the GCC hackers who 
contributed                                                      
    to libffi all these years.  libffi is widely used (see 
below)                                                          
    entirely thanks to your continued efforts. 
                                                                                                     
                                       
[2] A survey of libffi 
users/bundlers/forkers:                                                                              

     
http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/81-libffi-users.html                                               


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* Announcing libffi 3.0
@ 2008-02-15 20:40 Anthony Green
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anthony Green @ 2008-02-15 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libffi-announce

I'm pleased to announce a software release 10 years in the making:

                 libffi 3.0

libffi is a portable foreign function interface library.

The last release of libffi, version 1.2, was released almost a decade
ago in October, 1998.  Shortly thereafter we started maintaining it
within the GCC source repository along with the help of the GCC
developers.  libffi's primary customer at the time was the GNU java
runtime library, libgcj, and libffi benefited tremendously from the
contributions of the GCC community[1].

    However...

Over the course of the last decade, and especially within the past
libffi release or extracted it from the GCC sources for their own
purposes[2].  There now exist a multitude of libffi forks, and for no
good reason other than there not being independent stand-alone libffi
releases.

libffi 3.0 represents the resumption of regular, independent,
stand-alone releases of libffi for all to consume.

libffi 3.0 is the result of bundling the latest libffi sources from the
GCC tree along with new configury, enhancements, documentation and
testing.

libffi will continue to be maintained in both the GCC tree as well as
the original libffi cvs repository.  Patches are welcome to either
project, as we intend to perform two-way merges between the trees. Visit
the libffi project site at http://sourceware.org/libffi for details.

Download source release here:


      ftp://sourceware.org:/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.0.tar.gz

Enjoy...

Anthony Green
green@redhat.com


[1] A special "thank you" goes out to the GCC hackers who contributed to
libffi all these years.  libffi is widely used (see below) entirely
thanks to your continued efforts.

[2] A survey of libffi users/bundlers/forkers:
http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/81-libffi-users.html



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