[Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.16

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

This new release includes the main following changes:

- Gambas now compiles with libtool 2.x on recent Ubuntu versions. 
- CTRL+PageUp and CTRL+PageDown now switch between tabs in the IDE. 
- Shortcuts are correctly saved in all cases in the IDE menu editor. 
- The READ instruction has been fixed on 64 bits systems. 
- gb.pdf now compiles with recent poppler versions.

The full ChangeLog is:

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[CONFIGURATION]
* BUG: Try to fix building with Autoconf 2.64
* NEW: Put custom autoconf macros in the "m4" directory.
* NEW: Drop libltdl.
* NEW: Use a recent libtool.
* NEW: Make the ./reconf script verbose.

[DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
* BUG: Clear the breakpoint list when opening a new project.
* BUG: In the menu editor, shortcuts are now correctly saved in all cases.
* BUG: Do not fail to load a project when a component is not installed.
* BUG: In the "Requires" tab of the project property dialog, requirements
  are not incorrectly converted to lower case anymore.
* BUG: Keep case of "Exclude" and "Requires" component properties.

[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Fix many compilation warnings with gcc 4.4.
* BUG: Setting a breakpoint in the startup class works again.
* BUG: The READ instruction could lead to a crash when reading a string
  with a maximum length. Fix backported from Gambas 3.
* BUG: 64-bits fixes in the interpreter API. Watching file descriptors 
  won't crash anymore on 64 bits system when adresses outside of 32 bits 
  address space are used.
* BUG: Fix an uninitialized value in the date formatting routine.

[COMPILER]
* BUG: "Ambiguous braces" error message was incorrect, and has been
  replaced by "Ambigous brackets".
* BUG: Fix symbol tables that sometimes didn't work correctly when storing
  symbols having non-ASCII characters.

[GB.FORM.MDI]
* NEW: Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown are two new shortcuts to move to the
  previous or next tab in the Workspace control.

[GB.NET]
* BUG: Fix an uninitialized value in SerialPort class, when retrieving the
  port signal status.

[GB.OPENGL]
* BUG: Fix bad code factorization with Gl.Vertex, Gl.Color, Gl.TexCoord
  and Gl.RasterPos

[GB.PDF]
* BUG: Make gb.pdf compile with poppler >= 0.11.3.

[GB.SDL]
* NEW: Remove the old m4 directory before starting backporting the updated
  configuration process from Gambas 3.

[GB.SETTINGS]
* BUG: Fix the internal string quoting routine of the Settings class, so
  that storing strings with newline inside works correctly.

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Enjoy it!

-- 
Benoît Minisini