From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 21:49:41 EDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
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
>
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