Hi and thanks for the explaination. This makes sense. We will also migrate
to the 1.3 branch.
However, I still think it might have been a good idea to write a comment
in the STR about this. For example, Fedora does this when they are closing
bugs reported on older releases.
Also, I just checked the latest SVN version of fl_font_xft.cxx in the 1.3
branch, and as far as I can tell, the bug is present in this branch as
well.
Can we "move" STR 2355 to the 1.3 branch, or should we open up a new STR?
Rgds,
Peter Åstrand
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Matthias Melcher wrote:
On 15.11.2010, at 11:57, Peter Åstrand wrote:
I'm very surprised to see "Will Not Fix". Can you explain the reasoning behind
this? The patch is small and unintrusive and fixes a major problem which will otherwise
lead to a segfault.
In general, IMO, you shouldn't close bug reports without adding a comment.
Yes, I saw the first line about "POST ANY RESPONSES TO THE LINK BELOW", but
this is not possible, since the STR is closed!
The reason is simple. The FLTK 1.1 branch is closed for good. It's a great
branch and we kept fixing bugs until we have not heard of crashes for over a
year. We decided that FLTK 1.1.10 would be the last in the FLTK 1.1 line. A
1.1.11 release would eat up many hours of my time that I can't put into 1.3.
FLTK 1.3.0 is 99% source code compatible to FLTK 1.1 plus a huge amount of bug
fixes and improvements. It will be released before the end of the year and will
fully replace FLTK 1.1 . Nothing should hold our users back from migrating
their projects over to FLTK 1.3 .
So, in conclusion, keeping multiple branches alive takes time. Time that we
need for fixing bugs and adding new features in the *current* version. I
personally believe that it is better to fix and release 1.3 than to fix 1.0,
1.1, and 1.2 (because they also have the bug you describe).
Maybe one of the other core developers want to make a release?
- Matthias
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