[gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 1.3.17

[Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net>]

*** gtkmm2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. This unstable branch of gtkmm
wraps gtk+ 2.0.x

*** Changes

The main highlight of this release is added support for the Win32
(MinGW) platform.

* Win32 support. (Cedric Gustin, Daniel Elstner)
* STL-style interfaces: Use of references rather than pointers as value
  types, to avoid double indirection when dereferencing iterators.
  (Martin Schulze)
* vfunc wrappers: All overrideable vfuncs now have the "_vfunc" suffix,
  and they all have separate invoker methods, which are usually wrappers
  of the C invoker functions. (Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::Box STL-style interface uses Gtk::AttachOptions instead of bools,
  for consistency. (Jarek Dukat)
* Added examples/gdk, which shows gdkmm drawing code. (Alain Rouge)
* Added Gdk::RgbCMap wrapper. (Murray Cumming)
* Added Pango::GlyphString wrapper. (Murray Cumming)
* Many more get_*() methods are now const. (Jarek Dukat)
* Gtk::TextBuffer::create_mark() reference-count bug fixed.
  (Andrew E Makeev)
* Gdk::Drawable: Compilation fix for Sun's Forte compiler.
  (Michael v. Szombathely)
* Added Glib::Module wrapper. (Murray Cumming)
* Improved gtkmmproc documentation. (Murray Cumming)
* Distribute CHANGES files. (Morten Brix Pedersen)


*** Download 

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

You will need the alpha release of libsigc++1.1, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

If you wish to install this in parallel with gtkmm-1.2, you will first 
need to update to the latest libsigc++1.0.x, available here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

This is an unstable release, currently under heavy development. You can
find 
cvs instructions here: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/README

The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences 
compared to gtkmm 1.2: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES

There is also ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org  

--Daniel