[Gtk-sharp-list] RE: GNOME Platform Bindings - first schedule date

Martin Willemoes Hansen mwh@sysrq.dk
Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:04:38 +0100


On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 08:17, Mike Kestner wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 03:09, Murray.Cumming@Comneon.com wrote:
> > So, is this OK?
> 
> I had wanted to post some thoughts about this last week, and then got
> called out of town unexpectedly on Wednesday for an uncle's funeral.
> 
> I won't be able to release anything targeting the 2.5 platform on the
> 22nd.  CVS is still targeting the 2.2 tarballs, and I want to push out
> another release against 2.2 with all the recent advancements before
> moving the target to 2.5.
> 
> This move will force all Gtk# CVS users to build the entire GNOME
> platform from source. (Part of me thinks it's a bad idea to have Gtk#
> CVS follow the C API this closely to the bleeding edge, but I know the
> current situation is aggravated by the lack of a "stable" release of
> Gtk#.)  In the short term this is going to be a huge PITA for Gtk#
> application developers, and I don't plan to maintain parallel 2.2 and
> 2.5 branches.

wow, I think it will be quite a pain for me to keep up with development
releases of gnome :( How about making a release for gnome 2.4 as well
before starting following 2.7 development releases?

> So, if anybody has any issues with this plan, speak up soon. I'd like to
> get some feedback on whether this approach is feasible.  If it is, I'll
> try to move forward on it after Xmas. 
-- 
Martin Willemoes Hansen

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