google/autocxx v0.17.0

v0.17

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What's Changed

Major change: better flexibility for ValueParam, more ability to use stack objects

Mostly this has been work by @bsilver8192 to get all the various implicit constructor/destructor rules right.

• Always use std::move for params; never for returns by @adetaylor in #804
• Enable UniquePtr::emplace() by @adetaylor in #767
• Allow value parameters to be passed by copy instead of consuming by @adetaylor in #766
• Implement most of the C++ special member function rules by @bsilver8192 in #843
• Pass new not copy by @adetaylor in #847

Major change: we have a book!

See https://google.github.io/autocxx

Selected PRs:

• Initial book infrastructure by @adetaylor in #769
• Book improvements 1 by @adetaylor in #850
• Fix book URI. by @adetaylor in #854
• Document how nested classes are named by @bsilver8192 in #786

Other functional changes

• Cease to require bases to be allowlisted. by @adetaylor in #776
• Support include_cpp! in mod by @bsilver8192 in #794

Build and tooling related

The main thing: @philipcraig has done a bonzer job setting up CI on all sorts of platforms.

• add Cargo.lock by @milahu in #780
• Make reduction piepline better: dont run postcompile_step when gen_cmd failed by @milahu in #783
• Make KEEP_TEMPDIRS more useful by @bsilver8192 in #793
• Implement an option for not generating cxx::bridge sources by @bsilver8192 in #792
• creduce error case diagnostics by @adetaylor in #807
• github actions build and test on major architectures by @philipcraig in #817
• Remove beta test ignoring setup by @philipcraig in #826
• CI sanitize, rustdoc, cache by @philipcraig in #848
• Track and print dependencies caused an API to be ignored by @bsilver8192 in #896
• Generate fixed filenames for all types of files by @bsilver8192 in #876

Bug fixes

(selected PRs)

• Cease to make implicit constructors unless we understand all fields & bases by @adetaylor in #803
• Match trait method unsafety expectations by @adetaylor in #790
• Add test for #787. by @adetaylor in #791
• Test for issue 798. by @adetaylor in #802
• Test for #799 by @adetaylor in #806
• Uniquify constructor names when multiple mods by @adetaylor in #810
• switch rustfmt to --check, to give clearer CI errors by @philipcraig in #811
• fix branch spec by @philipcraig in #814
• Cease to turn commits red based on cargo outdated. by @adetaylor in #830
• Move away from deprecated C++ APIs in the demo by @bsilver8192 in #871

Internals

(selected PRs)

• Ensure every API has a unique name by @adetaylor in #879 - this will have fixed lots of lurking problems
• Remove dependency on unzip_n. by @adetaylor in #857

New Contributors

• @milahu made their first contribution in #780
• @bsilver8192 made their first contribution in #786
• @philipcraig made their first contribution in #801

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0