Re: Next stable release?

[Gregory John Casamento]

I'm not sure, but I defer to Fred's judgement entirely on this.

But my opinion is that If we do deprecate it, it should not be removed for a 
while.  The reason is that the xlib/x11 backend is a good fallback position to 
have when all else fails.   Additionally, on older machines, the xlib backend 
is the only thing that's useful since the art and/or cairo backends may be 
somewhat slow on them.

Later, GC

 Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer


----- Original Message ----
From: David Chisnall <address@hidden>
To: Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden; Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 7:20:33 AM
Subject: Re: Next stable release?

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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