Re: Glib 1.300 (stable) available

[Brian Manning <cpan xaoc org>]

> From the README:

"Glib uses unicode internally; therefore this module requires perl 5.8.0
or newer."

There shouldn't be any changes in the 1.300 release of Glib that
breaks backwards compatibility.  If you do run into any issues, we
would hugely appreciate the bug reports for those issues.

Thanks,

Brian

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> wrote:
> --- 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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> > gtk-perl-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
>
> Is Glib-1.300 supposed to work with perl-5.16.3 ?
>
> I haven't tried, I'm just asking.
>
> Thanks,
>   Sergei.