ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.3.8

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** Special notes:

The API is now frozen. Only incredibly important API changes will be allowed 
before the final fully-frozen gtkmm 2.4.0 release on April 12th.

*** gtkmm and glibmm 2.4:

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. The 2.3.x tarballs are the unstable 
development series that will become the stable gtkmm 2.4. gtkmm 2.3/2.4 will
wrap any additional API in GTK+ 2.4. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in
non-GUI software.

gtkmm 2.3/2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can install this
unstable library without the risk of breaking existing applications. This allows us
to break ABI and API, though we will try not to break API unless it is absolutely 
necessary.

We recommend the use of jhbuild or garnome for testing in a separate prefix.

The stable (API/ABI-frozen) gtkmm 2.4.0 will be released soon. 
gtkmm is on the official GNOME Platform Bindings release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

gtkmm 2.3.8:

* Gtk:
  - Action: Added set_sensitive() and set_tooltip(). (Murray Cumming)
  - Settings: Added some properties. (Bryan Forbes)
  - TargetList: Added a create() method.  (Bryan Forbes)
  - TreeModel: Rename 2 of the foreach() methods, to foreach_iter() and foreach_path(),
    because they are ambiguous with libsigc++ 2. (Murray Cumming)
  - ListStore/TreeStore:  Added insert_after(), because it is apparently faster with 
    many rows. (Murray Cumming)
  - IconTheme: Corrected refcounting of get_default() and get_for_screen().
    (Bryan Forbes)


*** Download

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
and
http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org


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