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Emmanuele Bassi 72e08fb87b gobject: Add GProperty
Dealing with GParamSpec is tedious and less efficient than necessary;
property definitions should be able to either directly access a struct
field or specify the accessors pair that control a property. On top of
that, most of the property and accessor definition can be autogenerated
from simple pre-processor directives.

So, here's to you GProperty.

GProperty is a GParamSpec sub-class that encapsulates all the types
inside a single, opaque structure (to avoid leaking out implementation
details); a GProperty can access the structure member holding the value
of the property, or invoke the accessor functions passed to its
constructor. Type safety is maintained through the GType system and
without having to use GValue.

Along with GProperty, this patch introduces a series of macros for
automating the declaration and definition of property accessor functions,
and for automating the collection and lcopy of values without going
through GValue.

GObject will recognize whether a GParamSpec used to set or get
a property is really a GProperty, and thus will shortcircuit most of
the GValue-based marshalled code, preferring the direct C function
and direct argument collection instead of boxing/unboxing of GValues.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648526
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This package contains the reference documentation
for GLib. For more information about Glib,
see:

 http://www.gtk.org

For information about contributing to the
GLib/GTK+ reference documentation project, see:

 http://www.gtk.org/rdp/

The GLib reference documentation is freely redistributable,
see the file COPYING for details.


REQUIREMENTS
============

To build the documentation, you must have the gtk-doc
package installed. To rebuild the template files,
you must have the current version of the GLib
header files installed.


BUILD
=====

First, run configure to generate the makefiles for this
module. There is one option specific to this package

  --with-html-dir=DIR   top of installed HTML documentation tree


The Makefiles for this module define three targets:

 templates:
  
  Scan the headers and merge the results with the current 
  template files

 sgml:

  Generate SGML files using the DocBook DTD from
  the template files

 html:

  Generate HTML from the SGML files.

To build the documentation, do:

 make sgml
 make html

You should only run the 'make templates' step if you
need to regenerate the templates for a more recent
version of the GLib sources.


INSTALLATION
============

 make install