EFL Preview Release: Asparagus

HandyAndE writes "For everybody out there who has been waiting for Enlightenment 0.17 or been thinking what alternatives are there to Gnome/GTK and KDE/QT this is an important day for you. The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) today have an (albeit pre) release named Asparagus. From the E site: 'We are pleased to announce the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries Preview Release, codenamed "Asparagus"! After years of work, we've come to a place where it is time to start opening these powerful tools to the wider world to use.' " Read more for more information.

Libraries included in todays release are:

• ecore-1.0.0_pre7 (loops, timers, X, evas and config abstraction)
• edb-1.0.5 (database library)
• edje-0.5.0 (powerful theming library)
• eet-0.9.9 (theme compression format)
• embryo-0.9.0 (embeded scriptiong for themes)
• emotion-0.0.1 (DVD / video wrapper for libxine)
• epeg-0.9.0 (super-fast JPEG thumbnailing etc)
• evas-1.0.0_pre13 (canvas library)
• imlib2-1.1.1 (image manipulation)
• imlib2_loaders-1.1.1 (image loaders)

Get your browsers pointed to sourceforge for a copy and see what EFL can do for you!