glib 2.38.0

[Ryan Lortie <install-module master gnome org>]

About GLib
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GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

News
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What's new in Glib 2.38
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 * Application support

  - GIO now provides an implementation of Desktop Actions from the
    desktop entry specification

  - GApplication now implements the org.freedesktop.Application
    interface as per the desktop entry specification, allowing for
    standards-based D-Bus launching of GLib-based applications

  - GDesktopAppInfo now supports DBusActivatable as per the desktop
    entry specification, allowing GLib-based applications to use D-Bus
    to launch other applications

  - GApplication now has a "busy" flag that can be set on an application
    to allow the shell to show that it is busy

 * GObject

  - the private offset for a given class type is now always constant.
    This was done by reorganising the memory layout of instances so that
    the private data comes before the "official" pointer for the object
    (ie: at a negative offset).  Valgrind macros were added to mitigate
    any problems that this may have caused.

  - a new G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE has been added along with a
    generated function *_get_instance_private() that can now serve as an
    equally-performing alternative to ->priv pointers in instances
    (allowing memory savings)

  - new G_PRIVATE_FIELD, G_PRIVATE_FIELD_P and G_PRIVATE_OFFSET macros
    provide a convenient method of converting between named variables in
    private structures and their (now constant) offsets

  - installing properties on a GObjectClass must now be done from
    class_init.  It is no longer valid to install them after class_init
    has returned.

  - it is now possible to manually break a GObject property binding
    without destroying one of the objects involved

 * Icons

  - the requirements for implementing the GIcon interface have changed
    in order to make it possible to consume all implementations of GIcon
    with a finite number of cases

  - a new GBytesIcon type was added for an icon represented by an
    in-memory binary blob in a known image format (ideally png).

  - new APIs g_icon_serialize() and g_icon_deserialize() replace the old
    to/from_string APIs and will always work, irrespective of which
    types have been initialised in the calling process, allowing for a
    serialised GdkPixbuf to be deserialised in a process that doesn't
    have GdkPixbuf

  - support for icons has been added to GMenuModel using the new APIs

 * Actions and menus

  - GPropertyAction provides a convenient way of creating a stateful
    property corresponding to a property on a GObject, such as the
    "visible-child-name" property of a GtkStack

  - new API g_menu_remove_all()

  - we now have established rules about what is a "valid" action name
    and an API to check them

  - a new API for converting detailed action names to and from the
    split-out name and parameter value (as GVariant)

  - for backwards compatibility, invalid action names can still be used
    with most functions, but this is not recommended

 * Other GIO

  - GDBus now supports services that wish to handle some of all
    properties on an interface asynchronously, without requiring the
    service to reimplement the entire org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties
    interface

  - GFile now has a new _measure_disk_usage() (and async) API for
    recursively determining the amount of disk space used by a
    particular directory (akin to 'du').

  - asynchronous version of g_file_trash() and g_file_make_directory()
    have been added

 * Other new API

  - GRegex has a new function to query the maximum lookbehind length to
    allow for regexp matching on streams

  - GVariant has two new APIs for constructing strings that allow
    avoiding copies in some cases: g_variant_new_take_string() and
    g_variant_new_printf()

 * Testing

  - we can now generate TAP output

  - new support functions for simplifying the process of dealing with
    data files for srcdir != builddir and installed test cases

  - g_test_trap_subprocess() provides a portable alternative to
    g_test_trap_fork()

 * Other

  - GLib now builds on Android against the bionic C library

Overview of changes from GLib 2.37.93 to 2.38.0
================================================

* fix the documentation for GSourceFuncs

* fix compilation on OS X/ppc64

Bugs fixed: 708445, 647145

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ChangeLog
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http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.38/glib-2.38.0.changes  (7.32K)

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