Gtk+-2.3.0

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

the Gtk+ team has come out of the cvs shell and released the first in 
the unstable 2.3.x series, 2.3.0.

    ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/

this release includes many of the new things that are going to be in 
2.4.x, but carries the warning that it is not guaranteed to be stable, 
in terms of API and such.

if you want to play with the new features in gtk2-perl before 2.4.0 
gets here, i whipped up an add-on module that adds support for the new 
features to the existing gtk2-perl code (e.g. the 1.00 releases or cvs 
HEAD) -- it even works *without* recompiling your installed Glib and 
Gtk2 modules, so long as you force the new gtk+ libs to load first 
(hint: LD_PRELOAD)!

    http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/Gtk2-3-0.01.tar.gz

this includes Gtk2::FileChooserDialog, Gtk2::ComboBox, Gtk2::Expander, 
Gtk2::ToolButton, and other fun things.  there are also a couple of 
demo programs that exercise a couple of the widgets.  oh yeah, it also 
includes a listing of methods by package, as generated by the xsub 
collector i wrote the other day.


i'd just like to point out that gtk2-perl makes writing bindings so 
easy, i went from compiling and installing a testbed version of 
gtk+-2.3.0 to posting this tarball in only four hours.  (i really 
wanted to see the new file selector. :-)



just in case you don't get the LD_PRELOAD hint, here's how i ran this:

tetsuo:$ GTKLIB=/home/scott/gtk23/lib
tetsuo:$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GTKLIB \
LD_PRELOAD=$GTKLIB/libglib-2.0.so:\
$GTKLIB/libgthread-2.0.so:\
$GTKLIB/libgobject-2.0.so:\
$GTKLIB/libgtk-x11-2.0.so \
perl -I blib/lib/ -I blib/arch/ ./file_chooser_demo.pl

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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>