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Doc change: Deprecate passing anything but NULL for the "package"

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2008-02-13  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

	* glib/gwin32.c: Doc change: Deprecate passing anything but NULL
	for the "package" parameter to
	g_win32_get_package_installation_directory() and
	g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory().


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2008-02-13 Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com>
* glib/gwin32.c: Doc change: Deprecate passing anything but NULL
for the "package" parameter to
g_win32_get_package_installation_directory() and
g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory().
2008-02-11 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* configure.in: Bump version

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@ -270,13 +270,15 @@ get_package_directory_from_module (const gchar *module_name)
/**
* g_win32_get_package_installation_directory:
* @package: An identifier for a software package, or %NULL, in UTF-8
* @dll_name: The name of a DLL that a package provides, or %NULL, in UTF-8
* @package: You should pass %NULL for this.
* @dll_name: The name of a DLL that a package provides in UTF-8, or %NULL.
*
* Try to determine the installation directory for a software package.
*
* @package should be a short identifier for the package. Typically it
* is the same identifier as used for
* The use of @package is deprecated. You should always pass %NULL.
*
* Its original intended use was for a short identifier for
* the package, typically the same identifier as used for
* <literal>GETTEXT_PACKAGE</literal> in software configured using GNU
* autotools. The function first looks in the Windows Registry for the
* value <literal>&num;InstallationDirectory</literal> in the key
@ -286,13 +288,14 @@ get_package_directory_from_module (const gchar *module_name)
* It is strongly recommended that packagers of GLib-using libraries
* for Windows do not store installation paths in the Registry to be
* used by this function as that interfers with having several
* parallel installations of the library. Parallel installations of
* different versions of some GLib-using library, or GLib itself,
* might well be desirable for various reasons.
* parallel installations of the library. Enabling multiple
* installations of different versions of some GLib-using library, or
* GLib itself, is desirable for various reasons.
*
* For the same reason it is recommeded to always pass %NULL as
* For this reason it is recommeded to always pass %NULL as
* @package to this function, to avoid the temptation to use the
* Registry.
* Registry. In version 2.18 of GLib the @package parameter
* will be ignored and this function won't look in the Registry at all.
*
* If @package is %NULL, or the above value isn't found in the
* Registry, but @dll_name is non-%NULL, it should name a DLL loaded
@ -422,8 +425,8 @@ g_win32_get_package_installation_directory (const gchar *package,
/**
* g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory:
* @package: An identifier for a software package, in UTF-8, or %NULL
* @dll_name: The name of a DLL that a package provides, in UTF-8, or %NULL
* @package: You should pass %NULL for this.
* @dll_name: The name of a DLL that a package provides, in UTF-8, or %NULL.
* @subdir: A subdirectory of the package installation directory, also in UTF-8
*
* Returns a newly-allocated string containing the path of the
@ -431,8 +434,8 @@ g_win32_get_package_installation_directory (const gchar *package,
* g_win32_get_package_installation_directory() with the @package and
* @dll_name parameters. See the documentation for
* g_win32_get_package_installation_directory() for more details. In
* particular, note that it is recomended to always pass NULL as
* @package.
* particular, note that it is deprecated to pass anything except NULL
* as @package.
*
* Returns: a string containing the complete path to @subdir inside
* the installation directory of @package. The returned string is in