Guile-Gnome 2.16.3 released

[David Pirotte]

Hello,

We are pleased to announce Guile-Gnome 2.16.3, the next maintenance
release for the 2.16 series.


* Guile-Gnome Homepage: 

        http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome


* Guile-Gnome 2.16.3 release tarball GPG signature [*]:

        
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile-gnome/guile-gnome-platform/guile-gnome-platform-2.16.3.tar.gz
        
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile-gnome/guile-gnome-platform/guile-gnome-platform-2.16.3.tar.gz.sig

;;    Special Note:
;;
;;    As I'm writing this email, I still have a pending authorization request to
;;    upload to http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile-gnome
;;
;;    --> in the mean time, you can either:
;;
;;    (-) grab the savannah snapshot, 'tar zxf guile-gnome-2.16.3.tar.gz' and 
run
;;      './autogen.sh' in order to generate the snapshot missing './configure' 
script:
;;
;;      
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile-gnome.git/snapshot/guile-gnome-2.16.3.tar.gz
;;
;;    (-) or install from the source, see 'Quickstart' here:
;;
;;      http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/developers.html


* About Guile-Gnome:

Guile-Gnome is a Guile wrapper collection for the following GNOME core
libraries:

        Gobject, Glib, Atk, Pango, Pangocairo, Gdk, Gdk-Pixbuf, Gtk,
        Libglade, Gnome-Vfs, Libgnome, Libgnomecanvas, Libgnomeui,
        Corba

Guile-Gnome brings the power of Guile Scheme to your graphical
application, providing a comprehensive environment for developing
modern applications.


* Changes since 2.16.2:

The primary objectives, working towards this release, were (a) to
remove all code specific to the support of Guile versions prior to
Guile 2, (b) removing all [but 1 Corba related that still need to be
taken care of, help welcome] Guile deprecated calls, and (c) wrap
gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels required by Guile-Clutter 1.12.

    All modules

        - Guile-Gnome now requires Guile 2.0, allows Guile 2.2
        - Requires G-Wrap >= 1.9.15
        - Requires Guile-Cairo >= 1.10

        Note: at the time we write, Guile-Cairo 1.10 has not been
        released yet, it will hope fully soon be the case. In the mean
        time, the required bleeding edge Guile-Cairo stable version
        must be obtained from the source, see here:

                http://www.nongnu.org/guile-cairo/dev/

        - toplevel calls moved into an eval-when conditions exp
        - scm-error incorrect arg list, various calls, all fixed
        - all [but 1 Corba related] Guile deprecated calls removed
        - remove use of some undocumented GOOPS internals
        - adapt to GOOPS changes in Guile 2.2
        - make check and make distcheck both have been fixed to work
          with recent automake versions [thanks to Ludovic Courtés
          for his help wrt to make check]

    Corba

        - fixing allocate-instance for <CORBA:Object>
        - gnome-corba-error, gruntime-error, don't call save-stack
           [deprecated]

    Glib

        - g_get_current_time now [temporarily] ignored, it was not
           properly wrapped anyway
        - <glib-wrapset> missing some basic pointer types: guint8*,
           guchar*, gunichar*, gunichar2* added and wrapped as opaque
           pointers
        - use &gw-bad-typespec, not &gw:bad-typespec
        - use string-suffix?, not has-suffix?

    Gdk-Pixbuf

        - gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels removed from the ignore list, it
           returns a guchar*, just added, no specific wrapper needed

    Gtk

        - gtk_recent_info_get_application_info should [temporarily]
           be ignored, it needs a special wrapper, to be done still


* This release was built/tested using the following tools:

        - autoconf                      2.69-8
        - automake                      1.15-2
        - libtool                               2.4.2-1.11
        - makeinfo                      6.0
        - guile                                 2.0.11.114-649ec
        - guile-lib                     git clone - master branch
        - g-wrap                                git clone - master branch
        - guile-cairo                   git clone - master branch
        - atk                                   2.16.0
        - cairo-gobject                 1.14.2
        - libbonobo-2.0                 2.32.1
        - ORBit-2.0                     2.14.19
        - gconf-2.0                     3.2.6
        - glib-2.0                              2.44.1
        - gobject-2.0                   2.44.1
        - gthread-2.0                   2.44.1
        - gnome-vfs-2.0                 2.24.4
        - gdk-pixbuf-2.0                2.31.5
        - gdk-2.0                       2.24.28
        - gtk+-2.0                      2.24.28
        - libglade-2.0                  2.6.4
        - libgnome-2.0                  2.32.1
        - libgnomeui-2.0                2.24.5
        - libgnomecanvas-2.0    2.30.3
        - pango                         1.36.8
        - pangocairo                    1.36.8


David,
on behalf of the Guile-Gnome team.


[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

        gpg --verify guile-gnome-platform-2.16.3.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

        gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A3057AD7

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

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