dbus-cxx 0.4.0 released

[Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.]

About dbus-cxx (http://dbus-cxx.sourceforge.net):
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dbus-cxx is a C++ API for dbus that explicitly exposes the C API as well.
It relies heavily on sigc++ and provides a means of integrating with
Glibmm via the dbus-cxx-glibmm sub-library.

Additionally, dbus-cxx-xml2cpp can generate C++ proxy and adapter
interfaces from extended D-Bus XML introspection documents.

dbus-cxx and it's related libraries and tools are available in Fedora 9+
and as source code on the website.

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0.4.0 Release Notes:
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This release introduces the dbus-cxx-glibmm library to provide a means of
integrating dbus-cxx with glibmm. The key class is DBus::Glib::Dispatcher
which performs exactly like DBus::Dispatcher except all actual dispatching
occurs in the Glibmm main loop.

Since Gtkmm uses Glibmm for it's main loop this also provides a mechanism
for integrating dbus-cxx into Gtkmm.

To enable glibmm support pass --enable-glibmm to configure.

There are also a few new changes to DBus::Dispatcher. The constructor now
accepts a boolean parameter is_running (defaults to true) that will
automatically start the dispatcher when constructed. Also, the dispatcher
will call stop() on destruction to effect an orderly shutdown.

DBus::Dispatcher has had a few bugs fixed and a few missing pieces filled in.

The watch thread finally has support for the case where there are no
watches. Instead, the watch thread will use sleep for the same timeout
period as select() was using and upon reawakening will check for new
watches.

A missing mutex was also added to DBus::Dispatcher::create_connection(),
and a hack was removed from the dispatch thread that called flush() on
each connection (the auto-start on the Dispatchers revealed the source of
the problem and the need for the hack).

Finally, the standard pointer typedef and static create() methods were
added to the dispatcher classes to standardize across all dbus-cxx
classes.