GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.2 released

GNOME Platform Bindings
Here is another scheduled release of the GNOME Platform Bindings,
which provide a GNOME development platform for programming languages
other than C, in the style of those languages. This release set gives
some bindings a schedule and rules to work within, so we can endorse
those bindings. We very much hope that Linux distributions will
therefore choose to distribute these bindings as a supported
development platform.

For the GNOME 2.5/2.6 schedule, we have bindings for C++, Java, and Perl:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

These bindings follow these rules:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html
and this schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

Note that those rules do not guarantee 100% API coverage, but they do
guarantee API/ABI stability.

There are "Beta Bindings" for C#, which are likely to be on the full
release schedule for GNOME 2.7/2.8. Note that other bindings exist:
http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html
but they are not on this release schedule and they do not necessarily
follow the same rules.

If you have questions about the GNOME Platform Bindings release set please
send email to language-bindings at gnome.org. If you have questions about the
individual bindings, please send email to their own mailing lists.
You can find links to the individual projects here:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.htm.

Download
You can download source tarballs from
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.5/2.5.2/

Changes

C++ (gtkmm)

No changes. There are lots of improvements in cvs, but we are waiting
for a GTK+ tarball release.

Java (java-gnome)

• New Classes:
  • Action (glue code and JNI)
  • ActionGroup (glue code and JNI)
  • Expander (glue code and JNI)
  • UIManager(glue code and JNI)
  • ComboBoxEvent
  • ColorButtonEvent
  • EntryCompletionEvent
  • UIManagerItemType
• New Interfaces:
  • ComboBoxListener
  • ColorButtonListener
  • EntryCompletionListener
• Deprecated the following Classes/Interfaces:
  • ColorPickerEvent
  • ColorPickerListener
• Added Event Handling for the following Classes:
  • ComboBox
  • ColorButton
  • EntryCompletion
• Tree and Text Widgets updated
• Fixed problem with wrong version of gtkjava library being loaded.
• Various build system improvements and fixes

Perl (gtk2-perl)

• Gtk: fixes a few build issues for people upgrading from really old gtk2-perl, or building against bleeding edge gtk+.
• GladeXml: Only minor changes, mostly to the build setup.
• Canvas: Beefed up test suite and several accompanying bugfixes. (Torsten)