This makes them consistent with the other getter methods in
`GIRepository` which return lists/arrays. It’s useful to return the
length, as that means the caller doesn’t have to work it out by
iterating over the entire array.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This covers all the API changes from girepository-1.0 to
girepository-2.0 so far.
It was generated by manually looking through the changes in `git diff
af36393e6.. -- girepository/*.h`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This might help increase visibility of Philip's useful GMainContext
tutorial. Although the GMainContext documentation is fairly good, it's
also pretty intimidating. The tutorial is very useful and provides
guidance that we can't fit directly into the documentation, so reference
it.
Now that the reference documentation uses gi-docgen, it's more
troublesome to generate in less standard build scenarios like
cross-compiling.
In distributions like Debian, reference documentation is generally
packaged separately (in libglib2.0-doc in Debian's case), but man pages
are generally packaged alongside the executables themselves (in the
libglib2.0-bin and libglib2.0-dev-bin packages, in Debian's case). We
can exclude the reference documentation when cross-compiling, but ideally
we would like the man pages to still be built, so that a cross-compiled
libglib2.0-bin or libglib2.0-dev-bin package has the same content as a
native build.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
They are now installed to (e.g.)
`${prefix}/share/doc/glib-2.0/{glib,gmodule,gobject,gio}/index.html`.
We might want to drop one level of nesting out of that, but for the
moment I thought I’d keep it in so we can disambiguate by installed
major version.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
So they are consistent with the way we’re building man pages in other
projects, and because some people are allergic to XML.
This changes the build-time dependencies from `xsltproc` to `rst2man`,
and also takes the opportunity to change the `-Dman` Meson option from a
boolean to a feature (so you should use `-Dman-pages={enabled,disabled}`
now, rather than `-Dman={true,false}`).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Because the documentation is no longer built using gtk-doc.
Keep the old option around, but deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Point people to the official PCRE documentation instead, which is going
to be more up to date. This saves us periodically having to copy in and
reformat the PCRE documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
We haven’t made any backwards-incompatible changes since GLib 2.2 in
2002. It’s probably not very useful to tell people about those any more.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
They were previously `xi:include`d into some of the GDBus documentation,
but since the GDBus documentation was ported to Markdown that’s no
longer possible, so the object manager example docs now serve no
purpose.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move them to a separate page as they don’t really have a ‘class’ struct
each to hang docs off.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page, with a massive great list of all the misc
utils. Not a great documentation page, but equivalent to what we had
before, and it can be improved in future.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate documentation file, since most of what’s covered
isn’t introspectable.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page so the difference between `g_rand_*()` and
`g_random_*()` can be explained.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Move it to a separate page so more detail can be provided about all the
groups of API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
