gtk2-perl api change request

The gtk2-perl team have found a few places where we messed up our 
implementation of the convention chosen in mid February for our version 
information APIs.  These need to be fixed before the stable versions 
ship, or we will be forever stuck with the mistakes, which are 
confusingly inconsistent.  Therefore we ask permission to break API 
freeze for the following functions:

   These need to be changed from lower-case to all-caps:
     Gnome2::GConf::check_version    -> Gnome2::GConf::CHECK_VERSION
     Gnome2::GConf::get_version_info -> Gnome2::GConf::GET_VERSION_INFO
     Gtk2::Pango::get_version_info   -> Gtk2::Pango::GET_VERSION_INFO

   While we're at it, we'd also like to add these four for consistency:
     Glib::GET_VERSION_INFO
     Gtk2::GET_VERSION_INFO
     Gnome2::Canvas::CHECK_VERSION
     Gnome2::Canvas::GET_VERSION_INFO

By convention, the all-caps versions deal with the version that was 
available when the bindings were compiled, and lower-case versions deal 
with the actual version used at runtime.  Some libraries, such as 
gconf, don't provide the run-time information, so having the lowercase 
form around is misleading and incorrect.

None of these functions have yet appeared in stable releases.


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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>

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