Glib 1.253 (unstable) available

[Brian Manning <elspicyjack gmail com>]

Overview of changes in Glib 1.253 (unstable)
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* Add unit tests for the exportable constants
* Export SOURCE_CONTINUE and SOURCE_REMOVE
* Name an internal function appropriately
* Create and register a GType for GConnectFlags

The latest stable release of Glib is 1.242.  There were fundamental
changes made to Glib to prepare for the release of Perl version 5.16,
hence the unstable release tag. These changes were first discussed by
Torsten in this e-mail:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2012-January/msg00001.html

View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/tag/?id=rel-1-25-3

Or download the source release at:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-1.253_001.tar.gz

This release works with all stable releases of glib-2.x.

In order to build Glib from source, you must have glib-2.x and its
development headers and utilities installed, as well as the
pkg-config utility.   In addition, the following Perl modules are
needed at build time (but not at runtime):

 ExtUtils::Depends >= 0.300
 ExtUtils::PkgConfig >= 1.000

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.