Re: ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.90.0

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

I meant gtkmm 2.90.2 of course.

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 10:02 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> *** gtkmm 2.90:
> 
> gtkmm 2.90 wraps GTK+ 2.90. It is the gtkmm-3.0 ABI and installs in parallel 
> with the gtkmm-2.4 ABI, of which gtkmm 2.20 is currently the latest version.
> This allows application developers to start using it when they choose to, 
> without being forced, and without breaking existing installed applications.
> 
> gtkmm-3.0 will be mostly API-compatible with gtkmm-2.4, though some small 
> changes will be needed in application source code.
> 
> The decision to do this ABI-break was not ours. We are forced to do it by GTK+'s 
> decision to do a ABI-breaking GTK+ 3.0. However, we will take the 
> opportunity to fix some small issues.
> 
> Note that a gtkmm 2.21/22 is still planned, which may have small API additions.
> 
> gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule:
> http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/
> 
> Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also 
> API-stable.
> 
> http://www.gtkmm.org
> 
> 
> *** Changes
> 
> 2.90.2 (unstable):
> 
> Gdk:
> * Display: Remove list_devices() and get_core_pointer() because
>   they are now deprecated in GTK+.
> * DragContext: Rename get_targets() to list_targets().
>   Remove accessors for some (now hidden) struct fields.
> * Image:
>   - Rename get_bpp() to get_bytes_per_pixel().
>   - Rename get_bpl() to get_bytes_per_line().
>   - Added get_depth().
>   (Murray Cumming)
> 
> Gtk:
> * Box: Remove the children() list because it used a struct field and struct type
>   that are now hidden.
> * ProgressBar: Remove the unnused ProgressBarStyle enum.
>   (Murray Cumming)
> 
> 
> *** Development 
> 
> There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
> http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
> and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org
> 
> 


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