For over a month I have been suggesting a new release of all GNUstep
code components (perhaps including Gorm as well), but got no reply at
all. Many of us have been pretty busy fixing the bugs Julian reported
and there is still plenty to do in this area. Anyway I would like to
start a discussion about this subject.
After the last base release we did not make a gui/back release
although some of the changes in base wont work with an old version of
gui. This means anybody wanting to use GNUstep with a graphical user
interface either has to use a very old release of all components or
use SVN. The later is especially bad for distributions as they will
have to ship an unclear state of the code.
I will be away the first two weeks of December and would either like
to see a release before that or after, but wont be available for last
minute bug fixes during that period.
There are a few changes to gui/back which I would like to see done
before the release. One is the conversion of the Ghostscript and the
ImageMagick bitmap implementations into filter services. The other is
the integration of the real cairo font interface (instead of the
currently used toy fonts) as prototyped in Opal. Is there anything
important I did forget?
It would be great if everybody could start to test its favourite
application to find out whether any of the recent changes introduced
new issues. What are the plans for GNUstep make and base? I think
there have been enough changes in base that warrant a new release and
gui requires some of these changes. For make there are a few open bug
reports, maybe some of them could be fixed for the release?
Please remember that this will be the first GNUstep release that
requires gcc >= 4.0. We decided so at the last base release and gui
requires a current base version.
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