Re: Delay of release....

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 10:22, Matt Rice wrote:

> On 2007-01-22 04:34:00 -0800 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Gregory John Casamento schrieb:
> > > My sincerest apologies on the recent delay of the release.   I  
> > > have been working on correcting a few bugs prior to the release  
> > > and other events have delayed me as well.
> > > The release should be made in either Monday or Tuesday.
> > > Thanks for your patience,
> > Oops, are you talking about a release of gui trunk or are you  
> > planing a
> > bug fix release for gui?
> > The late case should be alright, but there might be a problem, if you
> > are going to push out the current trunk of gui as a release. I  
> > made some
> > changes that will break backward compatibility and am about to make a
> > lot more of such changes.
>
> Well, backwards compatibility I believe is already pretty much shot
> as  I have added an ivar to NSTableView, and I believe that Richard
> has added one to NSControl,

Not that I recall.

> so it would be good if we could get
> these added now, (even if the code to use them is omitted from the  
> release due to instability or whatever) :D

Not to mention the move of NSAffineTransform out of gui and in to  
base to match Apple ... which means that whenever we make a new  
unstable release of gui we also need to make one of base.

Wouldn't it be good to backport bugfixes and make a stable release of  
gui (and back) without all the incompatible changes asap though?