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Re: Next stable release?
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Gregory John Casamento |
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Re: Next stable release? |
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Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:23:49 -0700 (PDT) |
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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Re: Next stable release?, Gürkan Sengün, 2008/06/06
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Re: Next stable release?, Gregory John Casamento, 2008/06/06
Re: Next stable release?,
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- Re: Next stable release?, Adam Fedor, 2008/06/07
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- Re: Next stable release?, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2008/06/08
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- Re: Next stable release?, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2008/06/10
- Re: Next stable release?, David Ayers, 2008/06/10
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