Re: dconf 0.5

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 18:42 -0700, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi Everyone,
> 
> After a bit of post-GUADEC delay I am happy to announce dconf 0.5.  This
> is the first release of dconf that doesn't completely suck (but it still
> has a lot of suck).
> 
> There have really been a lot of changes this time around, but one is
> really worth mentioning:


> I am experimenting with living a libtool-free
> existence.

Out of curiosity, why?

Thanks,
Kevin

> For this reason, it is quite expected that this release of
> dconf may not be very portable.  If you have trouble getting dconf to
> build on a non-GNU toolchain then please file bugs at:
> 
>         https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> 
> You can grab the tarballs here:
> 
>         http://download.gnome.org/sources/dconf/0.5/
>         
> The NEWS here is relative to dconf 0.4 (since I didn't write NEWS for
> the point releases that came between).
> 
> Changes in dconf 0.5
> =====================
> 
>  - Include a dconf-editor
>  - drop libtool
>  - allow compiling without gobject-introspection
>  - autotools/build fixups
>  - repair some broken use of tags
>  - many updates for glib API changes
>  - fix a crasher in the service
>  - prefer 'automake-1.11' if it is in the path
>  - add support for layering (ie: for system defaults)
>  - add support for multiple writers in one service
>  - add a shared memory status region to indicate if the gvdb is stale
>      this prevents dconf from having to reopen the file each time
>  - support keyfile-maintained system settings (via 'dconf update')
>  - port client library and commandline tool to vala
>  - client library no longer has unimplemented calls
>    (except for write_many_async, due to bugs in valac)
>  - gtk-doc is now complete for the client library
>  - install our own vapi
>  - support 'reset' in the GSettingsBackend
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
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