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.