ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 1.3.21

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

*** gtkmm2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. This development branch of gtkmm
wraps gtk+ 2.0.x.

We are now seriously pushing for a binary API frozen 2.0 release. There
are no known API issues apart from these, which will be punted to some
future version:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2A121471

*** Changes

* Lifecycle: Prevented double-destroying of GtkObjects. (Murray Cumming)

API changes:
* Pango::Layout: Added constructor and create() method. (Martin Schulze)
* Gtk::Scale: set_draw_value() and get_draw_value() parameters are now bools.
  (Ole Laursen)

Documentation:
* Additions to PORTING. (Elke Meier).
* PORTING is now distributed. (Bradley Bell)
* docs/internal: Added documentation_generation.tx.t (Murray Cumming)
* More reference docs for Scale, VScale, and HScale. (Ole Laursen)


*** Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

You will need the alpha release of libsigc++1.1, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

If you wish to install this in parallel with gtk--1.2, you will first 
need to update to the latest libsigc++1.0.x, available here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

This is an unstable release, currently under heavy development. You can find 
cvs instructions here: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/README

The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences 
compared to gtkmm 1.2: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES

There is also ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org  

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com