Re: Next GNUstep release?

[Eric Wasylishen]

Hi Fred,
I agree we should do a gui release as soon as possible - if I tested correctly, 
the latest gui release 0.20.0 doesn't work the the latest base, 1.23.0. I would 
like to get the changes you suggest in (font rewrite and filter services), but 
on the other hand, I think doing a release soon is more important - the font 
rewrite could be quite a lot of work -  and we can simply remove the 
ImageMagick and Ghostscript image reps for now.

As for the new cairo backend I added to back, we can either release with it or 
not. The resize flickering is definitely worse, but it supports some 16-bit 
configurations that were previously unsupported, and performs better over SSH.

btw, I have an experimental branch of back at 
svn+ssh://address@hidden/svn/gnustep/libs/back/branches/ericwa-experimental , 
which only supports x11 and cairo with the new surface. The goal is to try to 
clean up XGServerWindow/Event, and get rid of all legacy or "magic" code. So 
far I deleted a lot of code from XGServerWindow, deleted XWindowBuffer, and got 
rid of styleoffset support. One of the changes I made (I think in 
XGServerWindow ) got rid of the resize flickering, the only problem is, I'm not 
sure exactly what the change was. Anyway, it's encouraging, at least.

Cheers
Eric

On 2011-11-08, at 3:49 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> For over a month I have been suggesting a new release of all GNUstep code 
> components (perhaps including Gorm as well), but got no reply at all. Many of 
> us have been pretty busy fixing the bugs Julian reported and there is still 
> plenty to do in this area. Anyway I would like to start a discussion about 
> this subject.
> 
> After the last base release we did not make a gui/back release although some 
> of the changes in base wont work with an old version of gui. This means 
> anybody wanting to use GNUstep with a graphical user interface either has to 
> use a very old release of all components or use SVN. The later is especially 
> bad for distributions as they will have to ship an unclear state of the code.
> 
> I will be away the first two weeks of December and would either like to see a 
> release before that or after, but wont be available for last minute bug fixes 
> during that period.
> There are a few changes to gui/back which I would like to see done before the 
> release. One is the conversion of the Ghostscript and the ImageMagick bitmap 
> implementations into filter services. The other is the integration of the 
> real cairo font interface (instead of the currently used toy fonts) as 
> prototyped in Opal. Is there anything important I did forget?
> 
> It would be great if everybody could start to test its favourite application 
> to find out whether any of the recent changes introduced new issues. What are 
> the plans for GNUstep make and base? I think there have been enough changes 
> in base that warrant a new release and gui requires some of these changes. 
> For make there are a few open bug reports, maybe some of them could be fixed 
> for the release?
> 
> Please remember that this will be the first GNUstep release that requires gcc 
> >= 4.0. We decided so at the last base release and gui requires a current 
> base version.
> 
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