Release Digest: GNOME, January 27, 2004

XML Security Library 1.2.4

Application

XML Security Library 1.2.4

Description

Implementation of XML Security specs: XML Digital Signature, XML
Encryption, etc.

Fixes

• Many configuration and installation bug fixes.

Download

http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/download.html

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/xmlsec

gnome-games 2.4.2

gnome-games “Little Rascal” 2.4.2

Barring accidents or excessive incompetence this should be the
last release for the 2.4 series of gnome-games. After this release
people seeking stable updates to gnome-games should look to the
upcoming 2.6 series. Be warned that while this release should still
compile and run in a GNOME 2.2 environment the 2.6 release of
gnome-games will require GNOME 2.6.

You can download it from:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.4/

and mirrors.

The bugs where both blackjack and gnome-stones crashed on
start-up have now been fixed. There have also been translation
updates.

• Callum

gtkmm 2.3.2
glibmm 2.3.3

gtkmm 2.4

NOTE: This is probably your last chance to comment on the API
before the API freeze.

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. The 2.3.x tarballs are
the unstable development series that will become the stable gtkmm
2.4. gtkmm 2.3/2.4 will wrap any additional API in GTK+ 2.4. glibmm
is now a separate module, for use in non-GUI software.

gtkmm 2.3/2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can
install this unstable library without the risk of breaking existing
applications. This allows us to break ABI and API, though we will
try not to break API unless it is absolutely necessary.

But do be aware that the underlying unstable GTK+ 2.3 does not
install in parallel with GTK+ 2.2, so be careful if you apply it in
your normal prefix.

We recommend the use of jhbuild or garnome for testing in a
separate prefix.

The stable (API/ABI-frozen) gtkmm 2.4.0 will be released soon
after GTK+ 2.4.0. gtkmm is on the official GNOME Platform Bindings
release schedule: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

http://www.gtkmm.org

Changes

glibmm 2.3.3:

• gmmproc (code generator)
  • properties: Make read-only properties have const accessors, and
    add a second read-only const accessor for normal properties. Wrap
    construct-only properties as read-only, instead of ignoring
    them.
  • vfuncs: Really generate const vfuncs when requested. Put the
    method declaration directly into the .h file, so that the doxygen
    documentation can be next to it.
  • documentation:
    • Remove mergecdocs configure option – always merge the C docs,
      to avoid any risk of uploading or releasing empty documentation.
      Just delete the *_docs.xml files to make building from cvs
      faster.
    • Install a GLIBMM_CHECK_PERL() macro, for use by gtkmm and other
      *mm projects, to get the perl path needed by doxygen.
    • Install beautify_docs.pl so it can be reused in gtkmm and other
      *mm projects, instead of having lots of copies.
• Glib::ObjectBase: The default constructor, never before used,
  now generates a custom GType, for use when creating new
  implementations of Glib::Interfaces – for instance, see the new
  custom tree model example in gtkmm.
• Glib::Date: Added clamp_min() and clamp_max(). (Murray
  Cumming)
• Documentation:
  • Added reference documentation for MainLoop, MainContext,
    Source, and Date. (Alberto Paro)

gtkmm 2.3.2:

• Gtk:
  • AccelMap: Added lock_path() and unlock_path().
  • Button: Added get/set_alignment().
  • CellLayout: Added reorder().
  • Clipboard: Added wait_for_targets(), and a simpler
    request_targets().
  • MenuShell: Added cancel().
  • ListStore, TreeStore: Added set_model_columns() for use by
    derived classes.
  • TreeModel: vfuncs now use C++ types, and are documented.
  • TreeModelFilter: Wrapped set_modify_func().
  • Window: Added get_group() and set_accept_focus().
• Gdk:
  • Colormap: Added get_system().
  • Device: Added get_name(), get_source(), get_mode() and
    get_has_cursor()
  • Display: Added set_double_click_distance() and
    get_default_group().
  • DragContext: Added get_targets().
  • Added rgb_*() methods.
• Pango:
  • LayoutLine: Added get_length(), get_start_index(), and
    get_layout().
• Atk:
  • Added Document, Hyperlink, Hypertext, and StreamableContent
    classes.
• Portability:
  • Atk::Text build fix for Intel compiler. (Takashi Takekawa)
• Documentation:
  • devhelp file now installs correctly, with working
    hyperlinks.
  • Documented Gtk::AccelMap methods.
  • Documented Atk classes.
  • TreeView, TextView, and associated classes are almost fully
    documented. (Murray Cumming)
• Also:
  • build fix. (Billy O’Connor)
  • spec file fix. (Eric Bourque)

Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

Development

There is active discussion on the mailing list: http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml

and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/

—
Murray Cumming
murray@usa.net
www.murrayc.com

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.5

Application

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.5

Description

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome
project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform). It also
provides the xmllint XML/HTML processing tool.

Enhancements

• Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets
  (John Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
• Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support
  (Stéphane Bidoul), structured error reporting
  (Stéphane Bidoul)
• XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to
  dictionnary references (William & me), recursion (William)
• xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
  Mickautsch),
• xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
• code cleanup for strings functions (William)
• Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
• Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for
  future XSLT optimizations.

Fixes

• dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack)
• regexp segfault (William)
• xs:all problem (William)
• a number of XPointer bugfixes (William)
• xmllint error go to stderr
• DTD validation problem with namespace
• memory leak (William)
• SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes (Mark Vadoc)
• parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance)
• XPath union evaluation problem (William)

Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/libxml