Re: Which bugs to focus on for the release?

[David Chisnall]

On 18 Apr 2010, at 15:34, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Even if we could all agree on the current patch, we should then give it
> at least two weeks to be tested by a broader audience.

If we're considering delaying the release slightly, then please could people 
test both -gui and -back with the non-fragile ABI?  I've been using it on 
FreeBSD without issues for a week or so, but Niels reported some problems with 
Linux.  It would be nice if we could advertise it as a feature of this release.

> The switch to cairo as the default backend was a step that I should have
> done right after the last release. Doing so now is just not advisable.
> Or is it?

I thought we deprecated the xlib and libart a couple of years ago...  Is there 
any reason not to make Cairo the default?  It's the only one that I've been 
using for almost as long as I've been using GNUstep.  

On the subject of defaults, can we revisit the issue of exception handling?  I 
noticed recently that we're still using the setjmp() / longjmp() model.  Unlike 
Apple, we don't have code that makes this play nicely with the new exception 
handling syntax, so we can't mix code that uses @try and code that uses 
NS_DURING unless we compile with the zero-cost model.  

On 18 Apr 2010, at 17:34, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> Why not just make *two* windows installer releases with the two different 
> user interfaces?  Doing that ought to actually help advertise the theming.

Sounds sensible (although it generates some more work for 
someone-who-isn't-me).  Provide screenshots next to the two installers and let 
people download the one that they want.

David

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