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Re: Next stable release?


From: David Chisnall
Subject: Re: Next stable release?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:20:33 +0100

On 6 Jun 2008, at 09:05, Fred Kiefer wrote:

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.

Can we officially deprecate the x11 back end in this release and recommend Cairo? The OpenBSD package, for example, uses the x11 back end and I don't think this gives people the best impression of GNUstep. I've been using Cairo since AlpenStep last year and after Fred fixed a few bugs about a month later I've had no problems with it at all.

David




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