[gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.3.4 and glibmm 2.3.5

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** gtkmm and glibmm 2.4:

NOTE: This is probably your last chance to comment on the API before the API
freeze. WE NEED ACCESS TO A SUN BOX RUNNING A RECENT VERSION OF THE FORTE COMPILER.

This is only on ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ until someone finds time to 
put it on sourceforge as well.

This is the first version of glibmm/gtkmm to use the new libsigc++ 2 API.

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. The 2.3.x tarballs are the unstable 
development series that will become the stable gtkmm 2.4. gtkmm 2.3/2.4 will
wrap any additional API in GTK+ 2.4. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in
non-GUI software.

gtkmm 2.3/2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can install this
unstable library without the risk of breaking existing applications. This allows us
to break ABI and API, though we will try not to break API unless it is absolutely 
necessary.

But do be aware that the underlying unstable GTK+ 2.3 does not install in 
parallel with GTK+ 2.2, so be careful if you apply it in your normal prefix.

We recommend the use of jhbuild or garnome for testing in a separate prefix.

The stable (API/ABI-frozen) gtkmm 2.4.0 will be released soon after GTK+
2.4.0. 
gtkmm is on the official GNOME Platform Bindings release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

glibmm 2.3.5:

* Now uses libsigc++ 2 (Martin Schulze, Murray Cumming)
 
gtkmm 2.3.4:

(I will rewrite this, in NEWS, in detail when I get a chance. See the ChangeLog)
- Now uses libsigc++ 2 (Martin Schulze and Murray Cumming)
- Wrapped and used Gtk::Requistion (Bryan Forbes)
- DND API now uses strings everywhere instead of Atoms.
  (Bryan Forbes)
- Adedd IconInfo, TargetList (Bryan Forbes)
- Wrapped several enums. (Bryan Forbes)
- Lots more C++ificiation (Byran Forbes)
- example: book/dialogs/filechooser: Added buttons.
  (Matthew Walton)

*** Download

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
and, soon:
http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org


-- 
Murray Cumming
murray usa net
www.murrayc.com