--- On Sun, 5/19/13, Brian Manning <c...@xaoc.org> wrote:
> From: Brian Manning <c...@xaoc.org> > Subject: Glib 1.300 (stable) available > To: "GTK-Perl List" <gtk-perl-list@gnome.org> > Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 6:27 PM > Hi folks! > > With the release of Perl 5.18.0 yesterday, we decided to > release a > stable version of Glib to go along with it. The Glib > source tree on > git.gnome.org has fixes that are needed for Glib to run on > 5.18.0 [1]. > I've already uploaded the Glib 1.300 tarball to CPAN, where > it should > appear within the next 24 hours. The Sourceforge > tarball link below > is already working if you need the release tarball right > away. > > Overview of changes in Glib 1.300 (stable) > =============================== > > * Stable release to coincide with the release of Perl > 5.18.0 > > Since 1.28x (The previous stable release) > ----------------------------------------- > * Ensure timely destruction of initial wrapper of custom > subclasses > * Start changing module version numbers in all Perl modules > in the > distribution, not just lib/Glib.pm; > (Bugzilla #690464) > * Make Glib::Object subclassing more robust. This > should in particular fix > issues revealed by the change to hash > randomization introduced in perl > 5.17.6. > * Correctly handle utf8-encoded strings in GPerlArgv. > This should fix issues > seen with utf8-encoded strings in @ARGV > with, for example, Gtk2->init. > > View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/tag/?id=rel-1-30-0 > > Or download the source release at: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-1.300.tar.gz > > This release works with all stable releases of glib-2.x. > > In order to build Glib from source, you must have glib-2.x > and its > development headers and utilities installed, as well as the > pkg-config utility. In addition, the > following Perl modules are > needed at build time (but not at runtime): > > ExtUtils::Depends >= 0.300 > ExtUtils::PkgConfig >= 1.000 > > Glib provides Perl access to the GLib and GObject > libraries. GLib is > a portability and utility library; GObject provides a > generic type > system with inheritance and a powerful signal system. > Together these > libraries are used as the foundation for many of the > libraries that > make up the Gnome environment, and are used in many > unrelated projects. > > [1] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/commit/?id=ebf55199407d3be92162f5c2573c7f9c34614cb1 > _______________________________________________ > gtk-perl-list mailing list > gtk-perl-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list > Is Glib-1.300 supposed to work with perl-5.16.3 ? I haven't tried, I'm just asking. Thanks, Sergei. _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
