Libgda and Libgnomedb 3.99.6

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

I'm pleased to announce the version 3.99.6 of Libgda and Libgnomedb.

Important note: Libgda's API is now declared stable for the next V4
release (subsequent 3.99.X releases will concentrate only on bug fixes), Libgnomedb's API will continue to change before a stable release.

Short description:
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Libgda is a (relatively small) database access library:
* a wrapper like ODBC but with more features to access several database engines
* a general data model to use CVS or XML files
* a meta data extractor (to know all about database objects in a comman way)
* comes with an SQL console application (like mysql, psql or sqlite3 consoles)
* relies on GLib, coded in C, its API is easy to use

Libgnomedb mainly features some GTK+ based data bound widgets using Libgda for data access.


Changes for this version of Libgda:
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 - A few API improvements
 - MySQL provider improvements (Carlos Savoretti)
 - Performances improvements, and memory leaks removal
 - use the G_TYPE_GTYPE type instead of ulong
 - better control of exported symbols in the final library and providers
 - better binreloc behaviour in 64 bits
 - use custom marshallers for GError, GType and GValue in signals (bug #555905)
 - bug fixes: #541991, #546339, #555905, #556258, #556327, #556960, #529794 (Johannes Schmid, 

   Massimo Cora', Vivien Malerba)
 - Translations:
    - es (Jorge Gonzalez)
    - sv (Daniel Nylander)

Changes for Libgnomedb:
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 - Adaptations to Libgda's V4 API changes
 - Translations:
    - es (Jorge Gonzalez)
    - hu (Gabor Kelemen)

Tarballs are available at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/3.99/
Pease note that for the first time Win32 archives are also available at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/



To install this new version, you'll need glib, libxml2, and
optionnally libxslt; this version can be installed side by side with
the V3 version.

You can find more information at the projects' homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose
anything you want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list