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@@ -24,12 +24,35 @@ Installation See the file 'INSTALL' -Notes about GLib-2.4.0 +Notes about GLib 2.6.0 ====================== -* GObject now enforces CONSTRUCT_ONLY properties; due to an oversight - in previous versions, it was possible to set CONSTRUCT_ONLY properties - after construct time. +* GLib 2.6 introduces the concept of a 'filename encoding', which is the + on-disk encoding on Unix, but UTF-8 on Windows. All GLib functions returning + or accepting pathnames have been changed to expect filenames in this + encoding, and the common POSIX functions dealing with pathnames have been + wrapped. To keep binary compatibility with applications compiled against + older versions of GLib, the Windows dll still provides entry points with + the old semantics. + +* Likewise, g_get_user_name() and g_get_real_name() have been changed to return + UTF-8 on Windows, while keeping the old semantics for applications compiled + against older versions of GLib. + +* The GLib uses an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that + must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning + with prefixes such as _g will be exported from the library, on others not. + In no case can applications use these private symbols. In addition to that, + GLib+ 2.6 makes several symbols private which were not in any installed + header files and were never intended to be exported. + +* GLib uses a technique involving macros for reducing the amount of PLT + redirections which has the side effect that the names of internally used + GLib functions are prefixed with IA__. The g_return_if_fail() macros + strip this prefix away, but it will show up e.g. in a debugger. + +* On Windows, GLib no longer opens a console window if stdout or stderr + are invalid. Simply redirect stdout or stderr if you need to see it. * The child watch functionality tends to reveal a bug in many thread implementations (in particular the older LinuxThreads implementation |