Re: Next stable release?

[Fred Kiefer]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2008, at 20:11, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Following on David's email,  It's been over a year since we last 
> > branched a stable release.  Should we try to do another one soon?
>
> I guess so.
>
> I really wanted to get base much more compatible with the latest MacOS-X 
> before doing another stable release, but I just haven't had the time to 
> do any real work on that, so realistically it's not worth waiting.
>
> I don't see any reason at all not to make a new stable release of 
> gui/back, but perhaps Fred knows differently.

A new stable release is fine for me. I think the current code is far 
better then the 0.12 release and I don't see any mayor incompatibility 
change coming up in the near future.
There is one thing I should do before a new back release, that is test 
with cairo 1.6.4 to see how to avoid the black bars that have been 
reported. I hope to do this on the weekend, after that a release should 
be possible.
Just one more question: Are we all confident that the big changes I made 
to NSWindow and GSLayoutManager are now stable enough? They work 
perfectly for me, but that isn't a real test.

Fred