Glib 1.037 (unstable)

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

Glib provides Perl access to the GLib and GObject libraries.  GLib is a  
portability and utility library; GObject provides a generic type system  
with inheritance and a powerful signal system.  Together these  
libraries are used as the foundation for many of the libraries that  
make up the Gnome environment, and are used in many unrelated projects.

!!NOTE!!  Gtk2-Perl is approaching an API freeze on 1 Mar 04.  If you  
have something to say about the Gtk2 API, NOW IS THE TIME.
See the Gnome Platform Bindings Release Set Rules for more info:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html

As always, the code is available from our sourceforge project page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/ 
showfiles.php?group_id=64773&package_id=91217&release_id=220060

...and from anonymous cvs, tagged rel-1-03-7 in the directory  
/gtk2-perl-xs/Glib .

Overview of Changes in Glib 1.037
=================================

* Added bindings for missing utility functions, with tests and doc:
  g_get_user_name, g_get_real_name, g_get_home_dir, g_get_tmp_dir,
  g_get_application_name, g_set_application_name.  [muppet]
* Decided on versioning API, implemented, used, and documented it.   
There's
  more documentation on the versioning stuff than code to implement it.
  New functions:  Glib->CHECK_VERSION, Glib::MAJOR_VERSION,
  Glib::MINOR_VERSION, Glib::MICRO_VERSION, Glib->check_version,
  Glib::major_version, Glib::minor_version, Glib::micro_version.
  [Ross, muppet]
* GPerlClosure's exception handlers no longer clobber $_.  [muppet]
* Add the ability to register new error domains and throw Glib::Errors  
from
  Perl.  New utility function, Glib::Error::matches (binding for
  g_error_matches), makes it easy to test errors.  New xs utility  
function
  for parsing a perl data structure into a GError.  [muppet]
* POD generation cleanups and fixes and enhancements.  [Ross]
  - Methods are now sorted for readability
  - Plain functions get proper non-method signatures
  - Hiding works better, more extensibly
  - Can now specify where in the file the POD should code.
* Miscellaneous bug fixes.  [Torsten, Ross, muppet]

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