LightDM - Jun 2011 - LightDM 0.4.0 released

I've just released version 0.4.0 of LightDM:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~robert-ancell/lightdm/releases/lightdm-0.4.0.tar.gz

This release took a lot longer than I wanted, mostly due to the
difficulty of getting regression tests set up (system processes really
don't like being tested without accessing the system).  But the good
news is we now have 8 tests, you can run these using 'make check'.  I
plan to add a lot more over time, and this should make it a lot harder
to have regressions from now on.

Other things of note:
- There were a number of crashes that have been fixed and also the
code is more paranoid about NULL checking.  There may be more issues
so please test thoroughly!
- There were a number of issues with signal handling that have now
been fixed.  This should make LightDM shutdown more reliably.
- Some changes to the API to have more sane names, see
ldm_greeter_login and ldm_greeter_start_session (and the Qt
equivalents).  This will require greeters to be updated to work in
0.4+
- I've moved the config file from /etc/ to /etc/lightdm/.  This is to
allow more configuration files for new features that will be coming.
- Autologin now correctly uses PAM to authenticate, previously it did
not so sessions may not have all their services started.

--Robert

On ven., 2011-06-17 at 14:18 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
> I've just released version 0.4.0 of LightDM:
>
http://people.ubuntu.com/~robert-ancell/lightdm/releases/lightdm-0.4.0.tar.gz
> 
> This release took a lot longer than I wanted, mostly due to the
> difficulty of getting regression tests set up (system processes really
> don't like being tested without accessing the system).  But the good
> news is we now have 8 tests, you can run these using 'make check'. 
I
> plan to add a lot more over time, and this should make it a lot harder
> to have regressions from now on.
> 
> Other things of note:
> - There were a number of crashes that have been fixed and also the
> code is more paranoid about NULL checking.  There may be more issues
> so please test thoroughly!
> - There were a number of issues with signal handling that have now
> been fixed.  This should make LightDM shutdown more reliably.
> - Some changes to the API to have more sane names, see
> ldm_greeter_login and ldm_greeter_start_session (and the Qt
> equivalents).  This will require greeters to be updated to work in
> 0.4+
> - I've moved the config file from /etc/ to /etc/lightdm/.  This is to
> allow more configuration files for new features that will be coming.
> - Autologin now correctly uses PAM to authenticate, previously it did
> not so sessions may not have all their services started.
Seems to fails to build with -z,defs:

  CCLD   test-gobject-greeter
/usr/bin/ld: test_gobject_greeter-test-gobject-greeter.o: undefined reference to
symbol 'g_type_init'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'g_type_init' is defined in DSO
/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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