Re: Glib 1.300 (stable) available

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Sun, 5/19/13, Brian Manning <cpan xaoc org> wrote:

> From: Brian Manning <cpan xaoc org>
> Subject: Glib 1.300 (stable) available
> To: "GTK-Perl List" <gtk-perl-list gnome org>
> Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 6:27 PM
> Hi folks!
>
> With the release of Perl 5.18.0 yesterday, we decided to
> release a
> stable version of Glib to go along with it.  The Glib
> source tree on
> git.gnome.org has fixes that are needed for Glib to run on
> 5.18.0 [1].
>  I've already uploaded the Glib 1.300 tarball to CPAN, where
> it should
> appear within the next 24 hours.  The Sourceforge
> tarball link below
> is already working if you need the release tarball right
> away.
>
> Overview of changes in Glib 1.300 (stable)
> ===============================
>
> * Stable release to coincide with the release of Perl
> 5.18.0
>
>  Since 1.28x (The previous stable release)
>  -----------------------------------------
>  * Ensure timely destruction of initial wrapper of custom
> subclasses
>  * Start changing module version numbers in all Perl modules
> in the
>    distribution, not just lib/Glib.pm;
> (Bugzilla #690464)
>  * Make Glib::Object subclassing more robust.  This
> should in particular fix
>    issues revealed by the change to hash
> randomization introduced in perl
>    5.17.6.
>  * Correctly handle utf8-encoded strings in GPerlArgv. 
> This should fix issues
>    seen with utf8-encoded strings in @ARGV
> with, for example, Gtk2->init.
>
> View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/tag/?id=rel-1-30-0
>
> Or download the source release at:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-1.300.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.
>
> [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/commit/?id=ebf55199407d3be92162f5c2573c7f9c34614cb1
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Is Glib-1.300 supposed to work with perl-5.16.3 ?

I haven't tried, I'm just asking.

Thanks,
  Sergei.