On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:21:46AM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Marco Hugentobler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would it be an option to branch a 1.9 from current master just before Martin > > merges the first breaking changes? That way, there would be a version with > > all the nice 1.9 features and very little API breaks (and 99% of the plugins > > working). Plus the shapefile encoding fix. > > I remember though that the 1.9 option was shortly discussed in Essen and the > > release team was not very pleased about it. I can't remember the exact > > reasons, maybe it is worth to reconsider? > > Very bad idea IMO. That would result exactly in what we don't want: > having multiple broken versions with different (not) working features > available in each one. Again the same problem with breaking API twice, > not enough resources to concentrate on both 1.9 and 2.0 etc.
I also think 1.9 isn't a good idea. Rather if there's some manpower, a 1.8.1 would be nice, to fix any bad bug which is preventing users from staying in 1.8... --strk; _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
