--- Tomas Frydrych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree 100% with all you have said here. Sounds very sensible.
Andrew Dunbar. > I wonder in light of Joaquin's work (see my posting > to the "more Xft > stuff" thread), and would like feedback from the > whole team, whether > we might not need to have two development branches; > one a > continuation of the 1.x line; this would contain > Martin's table code, > Joaquin's xft code, footnotes and endnotes code and > similar, and > lead toward and intermediate 1.2 release. The second > developement > branch would lead to 2.0 release eventually, and > would contain the > Pango/gtk2 stuff. > > My main reason for this suggestion is that it will > take a while before > we have a 2.0 release with the Pango stuff; things > are moving along > slower than I have been hoping. However, much work > has been > done already that could eventually be released in an > intermediate > release, and it would be pitty to hold it back for > many months just > because other changes are not yet finished. So, I > think the best way > would be to brach present head into 1.x and 2.x > development > branches. The present stable would be left as is at > present for > bugfixes only, and after the 1.2 release would be > replaced with > stable 1.2 branch. The 2.x-dev would be > Pango-enabled and gtk2 > dependant, so we could remove the #ifdef WITH_PANGO > defines as > soon as the Pango code provides basic functionality, > while 1.x-dev > would be Pango-less, gtk1 based, so that all the > existing Pango code > would be removed from it. > > If we agreed this was a good idea, the question > remains which > should be the head (I would prefer the Pango/gtk2 > branch, as it > would be heading toward the next major release), and > what > procedure would be used to for maintaining the > non-head dev > branch. The easiest would probably be that each > developer would be > responsible to commit all changes to both branches > when > applicable, although, we might want to have a formal > maintainer, who > would be sent patches. > > I am eager to hear you thoughts guys. > > Tomas > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
