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Tue Apr 3 20:22:59 2001 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* NEWS: updates.
* NEWS.pre-1-3: take over old news.
Tue Apr 3 20:23:24 2001 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* NEWS: updates.
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.3:
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* More user_data support in various functions.
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* Main loop API revamps to support per-thread main loops.
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* Unicode handling improvements.
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* Implemented debugging traps.
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* G_CONST_RETURN specification all over the place.
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* Various new small utility functions.
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* Random number generator precision improvements.
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* New configure option --disable-mem-pools.
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* Many Win32 improvements.
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* Added g_try_malloc() friends varinats.
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* Many documentation improvements.
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* Many threading improvements, support for dynamic allocation
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of static mutexes.
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* GHookLIst API cleanups.
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* Improved format support of GDate parser.
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* String function speed improvements with new g_stpcpy().
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* Hashtable API additions.
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* New GPatternSpec for shell-style pattern matching (from GtkPatternSpec).
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* Optimizations, cleanups, bug fixes.
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Overview of Changes in GLib 1.3.2:
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GLib:
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* Win32 build improvements [Tor]
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* Improvements to error reporting
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(g_critical(), g_return_if_reached()) [Darin]
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* Add g_strlcpy/g_strlcat [David Wheeler]
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* New IO channel implementation for Win32 [Tor]
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* Make g_array_free, g_string_free return pointer to memory requested
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not to be freed. [Darin]
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* Added GError based error reporting for thread functions. [Sebastian]
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* Moved reference docs into GLib distribution. [Owen]
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* Added g_convert() for doing convenient character set conversions based
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on iconv. (GLib now requires libiconv or a native iconv.) [Havoc/Owen]
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* Various Unicode handling additions (g_ucs4_to_utf8, g_utf8_validate(),
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g_{locale,filename}_{to,from}_utf8) [Robert/Havoc/Owen]
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* Portability fixes for threading. [Sebastian]
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* Added convenient functions for launching new processes (g_spawn_*),
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and shell quoting/unquoting functions. [Havoc]
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* Split glib.h into many headers. [Sebastian]
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* Added a simple callback-based parser for XML-like files (GMarkup). [Havoc]
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* Fixed confusions between comparison functions that return <0, 0, >0
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and equaility functions that return FALSE,TRUE. [Sebastian]
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* Added safe/portable temporary file manipulation functions. [Tor]
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* autoconf improvements. [Raja]
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* Many documentation improvements.
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* Bug fixes.
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GObject:
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* Added boxed and pointer types. [Tim/Jonathan]
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* Added callback abstraction (GClosure) [Tim]
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* Added signal system (GSignal) [Tim]
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* Make GTypePlugin an interface [Tim]
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* Added GTypeModule - a simple GTypePlugin instantiation [Owen]
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* Bug fixes.
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What's new in GLib 1.3.1:
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* New GObject library added including object system based on
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the GTK+ object system.
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* Functions for getting the properties of Unicode characters,
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computing the canonical decomposition and ordering combining
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characters aand manipulating UTF-8 string manipulation based
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on libunicode.
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* GString now properly handles embedded nuls.
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* Multiple fixes from the 1.2.x branch.
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* Upgrade to libtool 1.3.3
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* Full thread support (thread creation and destruction).
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* BeOS port, BeOS dynamic modules.
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* Many improvements to the Windows ports.
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* Improvements to the OS/2 port, OS/2 module support.
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* Double ended queue implementation.
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* GLib macros for printf() formatting, e.g. G_GULONG_FORMAT = "lu"
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* New configure option --enable-msg-prefix to prefix messages, warnings
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et ceteri with the program name and the process id.
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* New thread-safe random number generator Mersenne Twister.
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* g_strcompress() added, g_strescape() had a slight API change, and
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more tightly defined semantics.
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* the g_string(x) macro has been removed, #x may be used instead.
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