Fornjot

It's been a slow week, as I was busy dealing with the fallout from my broken office PC. Good news is, I managed to get my data (including some Fornjot work-in-progress) off of it, and managed to pick up right where I left off the week before, making some progress on #105.

In other news, @hendrikmaus continued his work of automating the release process. I hope to test this out soon, as a new release is overdue, in my opinion.

Sponsors

Fornjot is supported by @webtrax-oz, @lthiery, @Yatekii, @martindederer, @hobofan, and my other awesome sponsors. Thank you!

If you're interested in helping to make the project sustainable long-term, please consider supporting me too.

End-user improvements

Improvements to the Fornjot application, the API for creating models, and documentation.

• Improve documentation of fj crate (#411)
• Make some cleanups in fj API (#412)

Ecosystem improvements

Improvements to the Fornjot ecosystem that are relevant to developers who are building on top of Fornjot components.

fj-kernel

• Simplify Handle (#413)
• Replace add_* methods with Shape::insert (#416)
• Add Shape::get_handle, Shape::get_handle_or_insert (#417)
• Extend builder API, use it to simplify approximation tests (#418)

Internal Improvements

Improvements that are relevant to developers working on Fornjot itself.

• Update dependencies (#405, #406, #407, #410)
• Improve release infrastructure (#408, #409; thanks to @hendrikmaus!)
• Simplify Store (#414)
• Clean up shape validation internals (#415)

Issue of the Week

Do you enjoy playing with unsafe Rust code? There's a tiny bit of it in Fornjot, and while it seems to be sound, it's leaking memory!

If that sounds like a fun introduction to Fornjot to you, maybe give #186 - fj::Sketch is leaking memory a try!

Outlook

Now that I'm back in my groove, I expect some more progress on #105. I think it shouldn't take too much longer to wrap that up, but of course there's always the possibility for surprises. Next, I plan to continue #141, which I hope I can finish quickly.

After that, I plan to put out a new release of all Fornjot crates. It's been a while since the last one!