releasing 0.8.5 (was: Re: pspp gtk3 mswindows)

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:26:36PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 08:12:59AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      Friedrich provided a summary a while back of the regressions that had
>      been noticed in the gtk3 version.  I think that some of them have now
>      been fixed.  Maybe it is time for another status update.  When the
>      serious regressions from master are gone, then I think that it is time
>      to merge the gtk3 branch into master, and to release a new version of
>      PSPP.
>      
>      Your thoughts?
> 
> There has been quite a few changes on the master branch since 0.8.4
> If we merge then release, it might be difficult, in the short term, to support
> the release.
> 
> An alternative approach might be to release 0.8.5 from master -  with the 
> understanding
> that it'll be the last release linked against Gtk+2 -  then immediately merge.
> Hopefully that'll give us time to discover any hidden Gtk+3 specific bugs 
> before
> 0.8.6 (or whatever it might be called) gets released.

Anyone object to releasing 0.8.5 this week?