Gdk-pixbuf 0.6.0 is released

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

Hello, lovers of meticulously-aged releases,

Version 0.6.0 of the gdk-pixbuf library has just been released.  This
release includes some bug fixes, some tweaks, and some pixie dust to
make your applications manipulate images like they have never done it
before.

* Availability:

  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-0.6.0.tar.gz

* Changes in this version:

	- The gdk-pixbuf library can now be built as a single static
          library by passing the "--disable-modules" option to the
          configure script; all the image format modules will be
          linked in (Miguel).

	- The progressive GIF loader should load multi-frame files
          correctly now (Michael).

	- The GIF loader now handles an initial transparent colormap
          entry correctly (Jonathan).

	- The XPM loader now handles the "g" color type correctly
          (Mark).

	- Fixes for the scaling functions (Owen, Peter).

	- Constification patches for pixbuf and image data arguments
          (Michael, Elliot).

	- New sanity checks for the rendering functions (Ettore,
          Federico).

	- Minor fixes to the testpixbuf-drawable program (David,
          Federico).

	- Added an appendix to the documentation describing the
          configure options specific to the gdk-pixbuf module
          (Federico).

	- Misc. documentation fixes (Alexander, Federico).

	- Misc. installation fixes (Mark, Alan, Telsa, Havoc,
          Federico).

The fact that this release is mostly minor fixes and tweaks indicates
that the Gdk-pixbuf library is reaching maturity.  I am very happy
about this situation.

Here are some tasks for if someone has a weekend to spare:

	- Write a new set of comprehensive test programs.  The ones we
          have are rather crufty and do not exercise all aspects of
          the library.

	- Write programmer's documentation.  The API reference
          documentation is mostly complete (if there is anything
          missing, please tell me and I'll write it ASAP).  The
          programmer's documentation should be an explanation of the
          philosophy behind the gdk-pixbuf design and some
          tutorial-like information.

	- Make sure the drawable-to-pixbuf functions work for exotic
          visual/colormap combinations.  If you have a multi-visual
          Sparc or SGI or HP or even a grayscale NeXT cube then please
          test this.

	- Write some special-case optimizations for the
          GnomeCanvasPixbuf item; it should use the fast scaling
          functions if the item has no rotation or shear components in
          its affine transformation.

	- As a side note, I have other weekend hacks that people could
          perform on the Eye of Gnome image viewer.  Please contact me
          if you are interested.

Help with these tasks would be greatly appreciated.

Enjoy,

  Federico