Let's get the ball rolling on the release announcement. Here are draft bullets for the drawing and GUI libraries:
* The `racket/draw' library --- which implements the drawing half the GUI toolkit --- is a new implementation built on top of the Cairo drawing library and the Pango text-rendering library. The `racket/draw' library can be used independent of the `racket/gui/base' library and without a graphics display (e.g., without an X11 connection). The new library has one small incompatibility with the old GUI toolbox: 'xor drawing is no longer supported. The new library has many additional features: rotation and general affine transformations, PDF and SVG drawing contexts, gradients, and alpha-channel bitmaps. * The `racket/gui/base' library is a new implementation built on top of Win32 under Windows, Cocoa (instead of Carbon) under Mac OS X, and Gtk (instead of Xt) under Unix/X. Unix/X users will see the biggest difference with this change. DrRacket and all Racket GUI programs take on the desktop theme for menus, buttons, and other GUI widgets. The GRacket executable is no longer strictly necessary for running GUI programs, because the `racket/gui/base' library can be used from Racket. To the degree that a platform distinguishes GUI and console applications, however, the GRacket executable still offers some additional GUI-specific functionality (e.g., single-instance support). The new library includes small incompatibilities with the old GUI toolbox: the `send-event', `current-ps-afm-file-paths', and `current-ps-cmap-file-paths' functions have been removed. The `racket/gui/base' library re-exports `racket/draw', so it includes the same drawing functionality as before (except for 'xor drawing). _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
