ANNOUNCE: GLib 1.1.5 Released

["Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson gimp org>]

GLib 1.1.5  is now at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.1/.

The 1.1.x releases of GLib are DEVELOPMENT RELEASES, and as such
there are usually large changes between releases.  You should not
expect 1.1.x series to be stable, since the focus is on enhanced
features.  You can find a stable version of GLib distributed with
GTK+ 1.0.x series.

Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:

* Win32 portability
* GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism 
* Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
* New functions:
  - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
  - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
  - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references 
    to other environment variables
  - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
    buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
  - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
  - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
  - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order 
  - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
  - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
  - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
  - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
  - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
* New macros:
  - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
    syntax elements
  - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
    search path syntax conventions
  - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
    structure fields through their offsets
* Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
* Bug fixes

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Shawn T. Amundson               
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