| 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 |
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| Overview of Changes in GLib 1.1.4: |
| |
| * Added generic callback maintenance functions (ghook) |
| * New endian defines (G_*_ENDIAN) |
| * New string join/split/free routines |
| * Fixes |
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| 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: |
| |
| * 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. |