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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.3:
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- * Minor fixes.
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.2:
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- * Minor fixes.
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.2.1:
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- * g_realloc() fix for SunOS (please report further problems).
- * Continued the never ending fix vendetta regarding getpwuid(),
- this time AIX has been the culprit.
- * Upgrade to libtool 1.2f
- * Miscellaneous other buglets fixed.
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- What's new in GLib 1.2.0 (since GLib 1.0.x):
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- * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+
- * Win32 Portability
- * Threading support
- * GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
- object code loading facilities in a portable manner
- * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
- * GQuarks and datasets
- * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data
- * An n-way tree implementation
- * GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations
- * GAllocator type and associated functions
- * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
- * Generic functions for TAB completions
- * Endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
- * g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels
- * Generic main-loop mechanism
- * New glib-config helper script
- * Many more API extensions
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.16:
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- * Allocate smaller pools of memory for glists, gslists, gnodes
- * Bug Fixes
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.15:
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- * HPUX 11 thread system detection should now work
- * Release the main loop lock around calls to prepare() and
- check() so it is not held over user code
- * A few Win32 fixups
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.14:
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- * Check for dlsym() in system libraries and -dl
- * FreeBSD portability fixes
- * Random bug fixes and autoconf/automake changes
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.13:
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- * Removed alloca() based function and macro variants again.
- * Improved thread related configure tests.
- * GSource destruction fixups.
- * Fixed up idle function removal based on user_data pointer.
- * Advanced Win32 portability.
- * Enforced GSource's check(), prepare() and dispatch() constrains,
- loop recursions may only happen from dispatch(), and check() as well
- as prepare() are called while the main_loop lock is being held.
- * GLib development now requires GNU autoconf 2.13, GNU automake 1.4
- and GNU libtool 1.2d.
- * Lots of random portability and bug fixes.
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.12:
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- * Added alloca functions/macros: g_strdup_a, g_strconcat3_a, g_alloca,
- g_new_a, g_new0_a
- * New tests structure. Type 'make check' on your system to run them.
- * Avoid unnecessary extra hook referencing in g_hook_list_marshal
-
- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.11:
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- * provide defaults for POLL sysdefs
- * g_main_is_running: new function to check whether a main loop has been quitted
- * a few other enhancement/fixes
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.9:
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- * Check for pthread_attr_init in all cases, Digital Unix 4 requires this
- * For G_LOCK_DECLARE_*, if !G_THREADS_ENABLED, eat trailing semicolon better
- * Changed g_main_poll_(add|remove) to g_main_(add|remove)_poll
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.8:
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- * Added threading support
- - The ability to specify a set of functions to be used for
- locking at runtime.
- - Default implementations of locking functions for pthreads,
- Solaris threads, and (experimentally) NSPR.
- - All static variables should now properly locked.
- - Enhancements to the generic main-loop mechanism to be thread-safe.
- (It is used for the main-loop in GTK+ as of GTK+-1.1.8)
- * Portability fixes.
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.7:
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- * Removed multiple define from glibconfig.h
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.6:
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- * New GDate functionality for calendar date manipulations (g_date_*)
- * New GAllocator type and assocated functions
- * New functions g_slist_copy and g_list_copy to duplicate a list with all
- its data pointers.
- * New function g_array_insert_vals and new macro g_array_insert_val to
- insert elements at an arbitrary index
- * GAllocators used for glist, gslist, gnode node allocations
- * Incremental freezing in ghash
- * New function g_hook_list_marshal_check to eventually destroy hooks after
- they got marshalled
- * Revised GIOChannel to provide generic virtual-function based interface
- * Added generic main-loop abstraction
- * Removed GListAllocator type and its g_*_allocator_*() function variants
- * Bug fixes
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.5:
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- * Win32 portability
- * GIOChannel structure to encapsulate the IPC mechanism
- * Reimplemented endian stuff, using inline asm for x86
- * New functions:
- - g_strescape: escapes backslashes
- - g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root
- - g_getenv: expands environment variables that contain references
- to other environment variables
- - g_scanner_sync_file_offset: rewind the filedescriptor to the current
- buffer position and blow the file read ahead buffer
- - g_array_remove_index: remove an entry, preserving the order
- - g_array_remove_index_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
- - g_ptr_array_remove: remove an entry, preserving the order
- - g_ptr_array_remove_fast: remove an entry, order might be distorted
- - g_byte_array_remove_index: wrapper for g_array_remove_index
- - g_byte_array_remove_index_fast: wrapper for g_array_remove_index_fast
- - g_strncasecmp: modeled closely after g_strcasecmp
- - g_list_sort, g_slist_sort: to merge sort GLists and GSLists
- * New macros:
- - G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant file name
- syntax elements
- - G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S: platform-dependant
- search path syntax conventions
- - G_STRUCT_OFFSET, G_STRUCT_MEMBER_P, G_STRUCT_MEMBER: for handling
- structure fields through their offsets
- * Removed G_ENUM, G_FLAGS, G_NV, and G_SV macros
- * Bug fixes
-
- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4:
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- * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook)
- * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN)
- * New string join/split/free routines
- * Fixes
-
- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.3:
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- * New GModule mechanism (implemented in an extra library) which wraps dynamic
- object code loading facilities in a portable manner.
- * glib-config features extra "glib" (old behaviour remains) and "gmodule"
- (add libgmodule.so to the --libs output) arguments now. this can also
- be specified as fourth argument to the AM_PATH_GLIB() macro.
- * Overhaul of the `inline' autoconfiguration stuff, so inlining should be
- sufficiently supported on all systems that allow inlining now.
- * New g_log() mechanism for logging of messages at different log levels,
- associated with certain log domains (define -DG_LOG_DOMAIN for your library).
- * New inline functions for bit masks tests.
- * GNode macros (and functions) now return the newly allocated node.
- * New macro G_VA_COPY() to work around va_list copying oddities on some
- platforms. the non-static g_vsprintf() function vanished in favour of
- a publically exported g_strdup_vprintf().
- People that used the former g_vsprintf() would definitely want to read the
- associated ChangeLog entries (grep for printf).
- * New utility functions:
- g_strndup(), g_on_error_query(), g_on_error_stack_trace(), g_strdup_printf(),
- g_strdup_vprintf(), g_printf_string_upper_bound(), g_spaced_primes_closest(),
- g_strnfill(), g_memdup().
- * Overhaul of the array implementations, this contains some source incompatible
- changes. Again, the ChangeLog is much more informative (grep for garray.c).
- * The internals of the g_dataset mechanism are now exported through the
- new g_datalist_* API (this is also the underlying implementation for the
- keyed data of GtkObjects).
- * New function g_atexit(), use of the ATEXIT() macro is discouraged.
- * Better configure checks for ansi compliance.
- * Libtool update to version 1.2b.
- * Lotsa bug fixes and cleanups as always ;)
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- Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.2:
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- * Fixed packaging mistake which occured in 1.1.1
- * fix 64-bitness in g_prints in glibtest
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- What is new in GLib 1.1.1:
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- * An n-way tree implementation is provided now, based on the GNode structure.
- * Bugfix for pointer arrays.
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- What is new in GLib 1.1.0:
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- * GLib is distributed seperatedly from Gtk+ now and uses a sophisticated
- shared library versioning scheme to deal with interface and binary
- incompatibilities.
- * There is a glib-config helper script installed now.
- * Fixups all over the place.
- * gboolean is now a gint, not a gchar anymore.
- * API extensions for GList and GSList.
- * New g_str*() functions for simple string handling.
- * GScanner extensions for scope, warning and error handling.
- * Minor performance improvements for GMemChunks.
- * Implementations of GQuarks and datasets (similar to GtkObjects data
- mechansim, but works for generic memory locations).
- * More convenience macros for GNU C function arguments.
- * Const correction all over the place, including a new pointer type
- gconstpointer.
- * Generic functions for TAB completions.
- * GRelations for n-way mapping of certain data.
-