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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; gnustep-dev@gnu.org 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev