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| author | Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> | 2002-12-02 22:04:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Owen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org> | 2002-12-02 22:04:13 +0000 |
| commit | ddbe0effd12395ea84fb96b2936cdfdd37cd4cad (patch) | |
| tree | 559cb804d057f12ef5e2736745944e0375b20d17 /README | |
| parent | 3ac24d98853cf80ebd112f761478e5bb8e53dbe7 (diff) | |
| download | glib-ddbe0effd12395ea84fb96b2936cdfdd37cd4cad.tar.gz | |
=== Released 2.1.3 ===upstream/GLIB_2_1_3
Mon Dec 2 16:34:13 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* === Released 2.1.3 ===
* NEWS: Updated.
[ Unmerged change from stable from May 16 ]
* autogen.sh: Remove check for GNU gettext, since it
was causing problems for Solaris CVS builds.
(#81885, Hidetoshi Tajima.)
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 25 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ General Information =================== -This is GLib version 2.0.1. GLib is the low-level core +This is GLib version 2.1.3. GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, @@ -24,22 +24,21 @@ Installation See the file 'INSTALL' -Notes about GLib-2.0.0 +Notes about GLib-2.2.0 ====================== -* On systems without the libintl from GNU gettext() or a recent version - of the GNU C library, the encoding of translated error messages will be - incorrect (they should be in UTF-8). A workaround for this is to install - GNU gettext and use that libintl. This is expected to be fixed in GLib-2.0.1. - Application programmers should not call g_locale_to_utf8() on these - strings. +* GLib changed the seeding algorithm for the pseudo-random number + generator Mersenne Twister, as used by GRand and GRandom. This was + necessary, because some seeds would yield very bad pseudo-random + streams. Further information can be found at: -* Similarly, the GLib error logging functions such as g_print(), g_warning(), - g_error(), currently do not convert the strings they are passed from - UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale, or check that the strings they - are passed are valid UTF-8. They should, despite this, be assumed to take - UTF-8 arguments. + http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html + The original seeding algorithm, as found in GLib-2.0.x, can be used + instead of the new one by setting the environment variable + G_RANDOM_VERSION to the value of "2.0". Use the GLib-2.0 algorithm + only if you have sequences of numbers generated with Glib-2.0 that + you need to reproduce exactly. How to report bugs ================== |