Re: New gui/back release?

[Fred Kiefer]

Fred Kiefer schrieb:
> why do you expect the next release to break ABI compatibility? What I
> wanted to do is a bug fix release and this is why I restricted myself to
> non ABI breaking changes. Looking back through the ChangeLog file I
> noticed that Greg has added an attached sheet ivar to NSWindow, this
> will break ABI even though there still is no functionality behind that ivar.
> 
> The idea of doing a release before your change landed was to give your
> code some time to mature while it is exposed to multiple users with
> different setup. Two months will be the minimum for that, we should
> rather give it a bit more time, given the slow speed at which people
> pick up GNUstep SVN changes. This would result in no GNUstep release for
> that time and I really would have loved to see the bug fixes out there.
> For example the cairo scrolling fix is something that the Etoile people
> have been waiting for a long time.
> 
> In the meantime Greg has commit some more of his attached sheet changes,
> code which I find of limited quality. There also hasn't been any sign of
> him fixing the NIB loading issues for NSTextView he introduced two
> months ago. I started to work on a fix here myself, but really I at the
> moment I am not able to stop the gui code from degrading.
> 
> OK, I stop complaining and come up with a way forward. I will give Greg
> time until this weekend to fix his sheet change, otherwise I will clean
> up myself and after about a week of test we should be able to make a gui
> and back release. Somebody else will have to speak up whether base is
> ready for a release.

Greg did some clean up here, that should make us ready for a release. As
Greg didn't undo his ivar change, I expect that he wants a full release
with changed soname, not just a bug fix release. This is rather
unfortunate as the next release after this will also be an ABI breaking one.

Fred