1guile-gnome-platform NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. 2 3 4Copyright (C) 2004-2008, 2011-2012, 2014-2017 5Free Software Foundation, Inc. 6See the end for copying conditions of this file. 7 8 9Guile-Gnome is a Guile wrapper collection for most of the GNOME core 10libraries. 11 12See the README, for more information. 13 14 15Guile-Gnome-Platform 2.16.5 - David Pirotte, 2017-06-02 16======================================================= 17 18* Changes since 2.16.4 19 20 Guile-Gnome is now compatible with Guile-2.2 21 22 But don't hail, this is a maintainance release, which actually 23 merely comment the build of the Corba and Gnome-VFS modules, due to 24 incompatible changes in Guile-2.2 (see their corresponding entry in 25 configure.ac for a better explanation): 26 27 This is reversible though, if you think you have the skill and some 28 free time to fix these two, please do! And get in touch with us of 29 course... 30 31 Dependencies 32 ------------ 33 34 Guile-Gnome now allows Guile-2.2, and requires Guile >= 2.0.14 35 36 37Guile-Gnome-Platform 2.16.4 - David Pirotte, 2015-12-08 38======================================================= 39 40This release fixes a serious bug, leading to a runtime error for 41Guile-Gnome built against Gcc >= 5.0. 42 43Glib 44---- 45 46* glib/gnome/gobject/gclosure.c: gcc_please_look_the_other_way must be 47 declared volatile. 48 49 50guile-gnome-platform 2.16.3 - David Pirotte, 2015-07-30 51======================================================= 52 53The primary objectives, working towards this release, were (1) to 54remove all code specific to the support of guile versions prior to 55guile 2, (2) getting rid of all guile related deprecated messages 56[that second part of the mission almost completed, there is still one 57corba related deprecated warning message, help to resolve that last 58one is welcome!], and (3) wrap gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels required by 59guile-clutter 1.12. 60 61All modules 62----------- 63 64* Guile-Gnome now requires Guile 2.0, allows Guile 2.2 65* Requires G-Wrap >= 1.9.15 66* Requires Guile-Cairo >= 1.10 67 68 Note that at the time we write, Guile-Cairo 1.10 has not been 69 released yey, it will hopefully soon be the case. In the mean 70 time, the required bleeding edge Guile-Cairo stable version must 71 be obtained from the source, see: 72 73 http://www.nongnu.org/guile-cairo/dev/ 74 75* toplevel calls moved into an eval-when conditions exp... 76* scm-error incorrect arg list, various calls, all fixed. 77* all [but 1 Corba related] Guile deprecated calls removed 78* remove use of some undocumented GOOPS internals 79* adapt to GOOPS changes in Guile 2.2 80* make check and make distcheck both have been fixed to work with 81 recent automake versions [thanks to Ludovic Courtés for his help wrt 82 to make check] 83 84Corba 85----- 86 87* fixing allocate-instance for <CORBA:Object> 88* gnome-corba-error, gruntime-error, don't call save-stack 89 [deprecated] 90 91Glib 92---- 93 94* g_get_current_time now [temporarily] ignored, it was not properly 95 wrapped anyway. 96* <glib-wrapset> missing some basic pointer types: guint8*, guchar*, 97 gunichar*, gunichar2* added and wrapped as opaque pointers. 98* scm_c_gparam_construct 4th argument type definition fixed 99* use &gw-bad-typespec, not &gw:bad-typespec, fixed. 100 101Gdk-Pixbuf 102---------- 103 104* gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels removed from the ignore list, it returns a 105 guchar*, just added, no specific wrapper needed. 106 107Gtk 108--- 109 110* gtk_recent_info_get_application_info should [temporarily] be 111 ignored, it needs a special wrapper, to be done still. 112 113 114guile-gnome-platform 2.16.2 -- 2012-09-05 115========================================= 116 117packaging changes 118----------------- 119* Instead of the terribly complicated revision control configuration 120 that we had before, now all code is in git, and in just one branch. 121 The build files like Makefile.am and configure.ac are no longer 122 generated from other files. 123 124* Update to support Guile 2.0 in addition to 1.8. (We don't currently 125 install compiled .go files yet.) 126 127* Require G-Wrap 1.9.14. 128 129* If Guile is new enough, tab completion at the REPL will cause all 130 "latent" bindings to become present. This makes it easier to explore 131 the API. 132 133glib 134---- 135* Fix generation of code that produces errors when compiled when 136 wrapping GList* types. 137 138gtk 139--- 140* Fix some instances of allocating boxed types with g_new0 instead of 141 the boxed type's own copy function. Thanks to Greg Benison and 142 Patrick Bernaud. 143 144* Fix linking error regarding libgw-guile-gnome-gtk and libguile-cairo. 145 Thanks to Andreas Rottmann. 146 147* Add overrides with parameter annotations for methods of 148 GtkPrintOperation (bug #603211). Thanks to Patrick Bernaud. 149 150* Add wrapper for gtk_tree_view_get_path_at_pos(). Thanks to Patrick 151 Bernaud. 152 153* Fix up some of the example files for 2.16.0 API. Thanks to Patrick 154 Bernaud. 155 156* The GtkTextBuffer API now uses UTF-8 for Guile 2.0. Thanks to Mark 157 Weaver. There is more work to do regarding UTF-8 and Guile 2.0, 158 though. 159 160libglade 161-------- 162* Fix automatic connection of signals to handlers (bug #605248). Thanks 163 to Patrick Bernaud. 164 165 166guile-gnome-platform 2.16.1 - Andy Wingo, 2008-07-03 167==================================================== 168 169packaging changes 170----------------- 171* Removed the "docs" module; its content, the tutorial, is now folded 172 into the documentation for all of the relevant modules (e.g. GLib, 173 GTK+, CORBA, etc.) 174 175* Changelogs have all been archived to ChangeLog.pre-2.16, because now 176 we will just use revision control logs. 177 178* Suppress some automake warnings. 179 180* Add guile-clutter to the set of configurable packages. 181 182atk 183--- 184* Improved documentation. 185 186corba 187----- 188* Improved documentation, folding the tutorial text in to the (gnome 189 corba) module commentary. 190 191* Removed a printf. 192 193defs 194---- 195* New platform release, no change. 196 197gconf 198----- 199* Imroved documentation, with example. 200 201* Fixed a bug regarding GConfClient notification. 202 203glib 204---- 205* Improved documentation. 206 207* Build process is slightly less noisy. 208 209* Recognize GInitiallyUnowned as a sinkable object. 210 211This doesn't affect e.g. GTK+, for which we already recognize GtkObject 212as sinkable, but it does affect e.g. Clutter. 213 214* Don't error when constructing parameter types of which we are unaware. 215 216Affects e.g. ClutterUnit parameters; the precise nature of this fix will 217change in the future. 218 219* Accept integers as init values for <gchar> or <guchar> values. 220 221* Bugfix for custom-wrapped boxed values, like GdkRectangle. 222 223* Fix regressions on x86-64. 224 225gnome-vfs 226--------- 227* Improved documentation, with some example code. 228 229gtk 230--- 231* Improved documentation, merging in content from the tutorial into the 232 main GTK+ docs. 233 234libglade 235-------- 236* Improved documentation, with an example. 237 238libgnome 239-------- 240* Improved documentation. 241 242libgnomecanvas 243-------------- 244* Improved documentation. 245 246libgnomeui 247---------- 248* Improved documentation. 249 250pango 251----- 252* Added (gnome pangocairo) module, along with documentation. 253 254 255guile-gnome-platform 2.15.98 - Andy Wingo, 2008-04-25 256===================================================== 257 258packaging changes 259----------------- 260* Formally require Guile 1.8, as has been the case for a while now. 261 262* Bump the API_VERSION to 2, as a test before going stable. 263 264This will change all library names, pkg-config names, installed header 265names, etc. (use-modules (gnome-0)) in user code should be changed to 266(use-modules (gnome-2)). guile-gnome-0 is now guile-gnome-2. 267 268The purpose of this change is to shake out any bugs in the API_VERSION 269mechanism. The intention is for the next release to be 2.16.0, with 270API_VERSION=2. 271 272atk 273--- 274* Documentation updated. 275 276gconf 277----- 278* Documentation updated. 279 280* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 281 282glib 283---- 284* API changes: Made gtype-interface-destroy! public. Removed the 285 terrible %especify-metaclass! as it is not used. 286 287* Documentation updated. 288 289* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 290 291* A few bugfixes after the large changes in 2.15.97. 292 293gnome-vfs 294--------- 295* Documentation updated. 296 297* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 298 299gtk 300--- 301* Documentation updated. 302 303* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 304 305* Remove special wrapper for <gtk-message-dialog>, as GTK+ 2.10 has 306 enough of a gobject property interface. 307 308libglade 309-------- 310* Documentation updated. 311 312libgnome 313-------- 314* Documentation updated. 315 316* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 317 318libgnomecanvas 319-------------- 320* Documentation updated. 321 322* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 323 324libgnomeui 325---------- 326* Documentation updated. 327 328pango 329----- 330* Documentation updated. 331 332* Don't use API deprecated in Guile 1.8. 333 334 335guile-gnome-platform 2.15.97 - Andy Wingo, 2008-04-10 336===================================================== 337 338corba 339----- 340* Adapt to changes in (gnome gobject). corba-typecode->gtype-class is 341 the new name for corba-typecode->gtype. 342 343* Compilation fix if BONOBO_EX is already defined. 344 345gconf 346----- 347* Adapt to changes in (gnome gobject). 348 349glib 350---- 351* Major rewrite of low-level (gnome gobject) code. 352 353GTypes are no longer exposed to Scheme. Instead, types are represented 354directly as <gtype-class> instances. 355 356Internally, <gtype-class> instances know their GType, because is stored 357in a <read-only-slot>, which stores a raw (untagged) word -- the perfect 358size for a GType. 359 360Similarly, I also removed the need for <%gtype-instance> smobs as well, 361through interesting trickery: the GOOPS objects directly store the 362GTypeInstance* pointer in a <read-only-slot>. The trickery is that we 363can be notified when the struct is collected, via monkeypatching the 364<gtype-class> objects to free via a custom function, 365scm_gtype_instance_struct_free. This allows us to unref the object. 366 367The same strategy was applied to GValue wrappers. With this change, 368Guile-GNOME no longer holds C data in SMOBs. 369 370Removing the <gtype>, <%gtype-class>, <%gtype-instance>, and primitive 371<gvalue> types has allowed for the removal of much useless, 372non-orthogonal glue API. 373 374Signals and parameters are also represented natively with GOOPS objects, 375not structures. There is no overhead for this, as GOOPS objects are in 376fact structures, whose VTable is their class. 377 378This is an incompatible change, but one which allows me to commit to a 379stable API/ABI, perhaps in the next release. 380 381Please test your programs against this version, so that I can help you 382port, and so that we can make sure that the API is fine. 383 384gnome-vfs 385--------- 386* Adapt to changes in (gnome gobject). 387 388gtk 389--- 390* New function wrapper: gtk-widget-get-state. 391 392* Reintroduce gtk-menu-popup wrapper, this time supporting the menu 393 positioning function. 394 395* Adapt to changes in (gnome gobject). 396 397* Interface changes: Tree models now deal in <gtype-class> instances, 398 now that there are no more GType objects. This applies to the list 399 store, tree store, and the generic tree model. 400 401* Make the texinfo viewer understand more kinds of @def commands. 402 403libglade 404-------- 405* Adapt to changes in (gnome gobject). 406 407libgnomecanvas 408-------------- 409* Compilation fixes with picky compilers. 410 411 412guile-gnome-platform 2.15.96 - Andy Wingo, 2007-12-10 413===================================================== 414 415packaging changes 416----------------- 417* Support a variant of check-coverage that generates a texinfo file with 418 the missing functions. 419 420* Various buildfixes for building out-of-tree modules such as 421 guile-gnome-gstreamer. 422 423atk 424--- 425* API review. Lots of interface types actually declared. 426 427* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 428 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 429 430cairo 431----- 432* Remove (gnome cairo), as we have no actual public API. 433 434corba 435----- 436* Add automatically generated documentation and API regression tests. 437 The docs need some work, however. 438 439docs 440---- 441* Minor updates. 442 443gconf 444----- 445* API review. 446 447* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 448 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 449 450glib 451---- 452* API review. 453 454* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 455 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 456 457* Bugfix: avoid SCM_STRING_CHARS in core (gnome gobject) code, which 458 will raise an exception when called on shared substrings. 459 460* Fixes to the fifo.scm example, which uses GIOChannel. 461 462* Leave guile mode at the right time in g-main-loop-run, fixing some 463 hangs. 464 465* Change to the wrapset generator to no longer silently wrap opaque 466 types; instead, functions that reference unknown types are ignored, 467 and a warning is printed out. Requires more discipline when making 468 wrapsets, but reduces random crap being wrapped. 469 470* Add support for appending a list of undocumented functions to the 471 generated documentation. 472 473* Add support for wrapping more kinds of C structures: freeable 474 pointers, generic refcounted pointers, and destructurable values. See 475 the changes to (gnome gw support gobject) for more information. 476 477gnome-vfs 478--------- 479* API review. 480 481* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 482 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 483 484gtk 485--- 486* API review. 487 488* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 489 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 490 491* Fixes to make sure that all examples work. 492 493* Fix crasher in gtk-tree-model-iter-next. 494 495libglade 496-------- 497* API review. 498 499* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 500 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 501 502libgnome 503-------- 504* API review. 505 506* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 507 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 508 509libgnomecanvas 510-------------- 511* API review. 512 513* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 514 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 515 516* Fix wrapper for GnomeCanvasPoints. 517 518libgnomeui 519---------- 520* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 521 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 522 523* API review, resulting in a number of functions being ignored. 524 525pango 526----- 527* Documentation changes: add type index, section for undocumented 528 exports, regenerated for changes resulting from API review. 529 530* API review, resulting in a number of functions being ignored. 531 532 533guile-gnome-platform 2.15.95 - Andy Wingo, 2007-11-10 534===================================================== 535 536packaging changes 537----------------- 538* Build system work: add common makefile include for unit tests and a 539 new check-coverage target to documentation builds. 540 541atk 542--- 543* Added API regression test suite. 544 545gconf 546----- 547* Add API regression test suite. 548 549* Add documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 550 551glib 552---- 553* Added API regression unit tests for (gnome gw glib); previously only 554 (gnome gobject) was tested. 555 556* Add new code to check documentation coverage, integrated with the 557 build system via the generate-docs.mk file in the `pkg' module. 558 559* Fix documentation of class properties. 560 561gnome-vfs 562--------- 563* Add API regression test suite. 564 565* Add documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 566 567The docs are suboptimal, as they do not talk at all the mapping between 568gnome-vfs handles and scheme ports. 569 570gtk 571--- 572* Incompatible change: (gnome gtk) only exports GDK and GTK functions 573 574(gnome gtk) used to re-export (oop goops), (gnome gobject), and a number 575of other modules. This was changed so that we could guarantee a stable 576interface for (gnome gtk); if you want other modules, you should 577explicitly require them. 578 579* Added API regression test suite. 580 581libglade 582-------- 583* Added documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 584 585* Added API regression test suite. 586 587libgnome 588-------- 589* Add documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 590 591* Add API regression test suite. 592 593libgnomecanvas 594-------------- 595* Add API regression test suite. 596 597* Add documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 598 599libgnomeui 600---------- 601* Add documentation, generated from upstream gtk-doc. 602 603* Add API regression test suite. 604 605pango 606----- 607* Fix linking errors that made pangocairo unusable. 608 609* Add API regression test suite. 610 611 612guile-gnome-platform 2.15.94 - Andy Wingo, 2007-09-25 613===================================================== 614 615packaging changes 616----------------- 617* Added infrastructure to make documentation. 618 619atk 620--- 621* Add documentation. 622 623corba 624----- 625* Fix a compiler warning. 626 627defs 628---- 629* Remove .defs for libwnck, as they are not part of the platform. 630 631glib 632---- 633* Added documentation for the gobject and glib wrappers. 634 635* Added unit tests which check that the (gnome gobject) and (gnome gw 636 glib) APIs do not unintentionally change incompatibly. 637 638* Added infrastructure for automatically producing documentation based 639 on upstream GTK-Doc documentation. 640 641* Fixed a number of API bugs; see the ChangeLog from 2006-09-01 and 642 before for more details. Should not affect user's applications. 643 644gtk 645--- 646* Added documentation for the gtk and gdk wrappers. 647 648pango 649----- 650* Added documentation for the pango and pangocairo wrappers. 651 652 653guile-gnome-platform 2.15.93 - Andy Wingo, 2007-06-15 654===================================================== 655 656The most notable features of the release are that (1) it works, unlike 6572.15.92; and (2) load time is much faster with the latest Guile 1.8 CVS. 658 659cairo 660----- 661* Guile-Gnome-Cairo 2.15.92 was unusable; fixed. Unfortunately this 662 means that we have to make another small shared library. 663 664defs 665---- 666* Fix pango defs to include pango-tabs.h. 667 668glib 669---- 670* Fix parsing of some options on arguments, such as (callee-owned), 671 broken since 2007-05-05. 672 673* Fix wrapper name of g-string-get-str. 674 675* Fix some default values lost when glib.defs was autogenerated. 676 677* Large speedup in load time of wrapped modules if we detect that 678 Guile's module-make-local-var! is "lightweight", as is the case in the 679 latest Guile 1.8 and HEAD CVS. 680 681gtk 682--- 683* Fix wrapping of GdkEvent, which had broken mysteriously. 684 685 686guile-gnome-platform 2.15.92 - Andy Wingo, 2007-05-24 687===================================================== 688 689packaging changes 690----------------- 691* Updates to h2defs.py to automatically handle more cases. 692 693* Add cairo to guile-gnome-platform. 694 695atk 696--- 697* Update to wrap ATK 1.12, corresponding to GNOME 2.16. 698 699cairo 700----- 701* G-wrap integration for external guile-cairo module. 702 703corba 704----- 705* Fix bug caused by change in guile-gnome-glib a while back that 706 prevented CORBA from loading (#416570). 707 708defs 709---- 710* Update all defs files to the library versions corresponding to the 711 GNOME 2.16 development platform. Defs files are now entirely 712 autogenerated. 713 714docs 715---- 716* New platform release, no change. 717 718gconf 719----- 720* Update to wrap GConf 2.18, corresponding to GNOME 2.16. 721 722glib 723---- 724* Update to GLib 2.10. Notably, this wraps the GBookmarkFile API, and 725 the g_unicode and g_utf8 functions. 726 727* Fix POSIX signal handling when running the main loop with Guile 1.8. 728 729gnome-vfs 730--------- 731* Update to wrap GNOME-VFS 2.16. 732 733gtk 734--- 735* Update to wrap GTK+ 2.10, part of GNOME 2.16. 736 737* Require guile-cairo. 738 739* Bugfixes. 740 741libglade 742-------- 743* Update to wrap libglade 2.6.0, corresponding to GNOME 2.16. 744 745libgnome 746-------- 747* Update to wrap libgnome 2.16. 748 749libgnomecanvas 750-------------- 751* Update to wrap libgnomecanvas 2.14, corresponding to GNOME 2.16. 752 753libgnomeui 754---------- 755* Update to wrap libgnomeui 2.16. 756 757pango 758----- 759* Wrap pangocairo if cairo is available. 760 761* Update pango wrappers to version 1.14. 762 763 764guile-gnome-platform 2.15.91 - Andy Wingo, 2007-05-10 765===================================================== 766 767packaging changes 768----------------- 769* Require G-Wrap 1.9.8. 770 771atk 772--- 773* Update for defs parser changes. 774 775docs 776---- 777* Add "Getting started" chapter to tutorial. 778 779gconf 780----- 781* Updates for defs parser changes. 782 783glib 784---- 785* Leave guile mode when calling into C, and enter when calling back into 786 Guile, as in GClosures. Guile-gnome now supports multithreaded 787 operation on Guile 1.8. 788 789* The custom handler for g_warning() and friends was removed; 790 guile-gnome will no longer scm_error when GLib logs. 791 792* The defs parser automatically recognizes more output arguments, for 793 example guint64*. 794 795* Many bugfixes. 796 797gnome-vfs 798--------- 799* Updates for defs parser changes. 800 801gtk 802--- 803* Additions: 804 - gtk-menu-popup accepts #f for parent widget arguments. 805 - gdk-event-button: accessors now work on 2button and 3button events. 806 - New GDK event accessor: gdk-event-button:time 807 808* Bugfixes: 809 - Fix gtk-icon-size-lookup and gtk-icon-size-get-name wrappers. 810 811* Updates for defs parser changes. 812 813libglade 814-------- 815* Update for changes to defs parser. 816 817libgnomecanvas 818-------------- 819* Update for changes in the defs parser. 820 821 822 823guile-gnome-platform 2.15.90 - Andy Wingo, 2006-12-15 824===================================================== 825 826packaging changes 827----------------- 828* Require G-Wrap 1.9.7. 829 830* Update to use bzr as the version control system, instead of tla. 831 832atk 833--- 834* Build fix for g-wrap. 835 836corba 837----- 838* Build fix for g-wrap. 839 840gconf 841----- 842* Build fixes for g-wrap. 843 844glib 845---- 846* Operate on GTypeInstances via a generic registry of fundamental type 847 operations. guile-gnome-glib comes with operations on GObject and 848 GParamSpec; wrappers can define other operations for other fundamental 849 types (such as GstMiniObject in GStreamer). 850 851* Require G-Wrap 1.9.7, so that we can place all of our generics in the 852 (gnome gw generics) module instead of in the root module. 853 854* Avoid calling scm_ functions while in GC sweep, fixes crashes on Guile 855 1.8. 856 857* Add support macro for wrapping custom unclassed GTypes, such as 858 GStreamer's fractions. 859 860* Don't ignore 'null-ok (or other options) in cases like this: 861 '("GMainContext*" "context" (null-ok) (default "NULL")). 862 863* Remove SLIB dependency by folding in the needed functionality. 864 865* Add support for gsize and gssize, both as input and output parameters. 866 867* Add accessors for fields of GError. 868 869* Other compile, memleak, and bug fixes. 870 871gnome-vfs 872--------- 873* Build updates for g-wrap. 874 875* Don't attempt to wrap bonobo functions, they are not present in newer 876 gnome-vfs. 877 878* Fix locking, the --disable-deprecated mechanism, and some GCC 4 879 warnings. 880 881gtk 882--- 883* Build updates for g-wrap, compile fixes for GCC 4. 884 885* Wrap GtkListStore (previously skipped by mistake). 886 887* Wrap gint* and guint* output args, and annotate some parameters as 888 null-ok. 889 890libglade 891-------- 892* Build updates for g-wrap. 893 894libgnome 895-------- 896* Build updates for g-wrap. 897 898libgnomecanvas 899-------------- 900* Build updates for g-wrap and other compile fixes. 901 902libgnomeui 903---------- 904* Build updates for g-wrap. 905 906pango 907----- 908* Build updates for g-wrap. 909 910 911guile-gnome-platform 2.7.99 - Andy Wingo, 2005-03-06 912==================================================== 913 914* Require g-wrap >= 1.9.4. 915 916* Add a general option to disable wrapping deprecated functions. 917 918 919guile-gnome-platforn 2.7.98 - Andy Wingo, 2005-01-11 920==================================================== 921 922* Initial release with NEWS. 923 924 925Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 926 927Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are 928permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice 929and this notice are preserved. 930