Re: 0.20 release on sourceforge

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

René Seindal said:
> It appears that Gtk2::ListStore doesn't have an unref() method, but since it
> is a GObject, it should have one.
>
> According to http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TreeWidget.html the
> model should be unref'ed after it is given to the view, but the method isn't
> there.

the perl developer need know nothing about reference counts on GObjects, GType
ids, freeing boxed types, etc --- the bindings do all of that for you.  (in
fact, this issue was the initial reason for the xs tree's existence!)

this document (culled from the list archives) explains the ideology of the
bindings from a perl developer's point of view, and should serve as the
beginnings of documentation:

   http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/braindump.html

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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>