Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:56:39PM -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
aaron@...749... wrote:
David mentioned he wasn't going to get Inkboard ported to Bob's PedroXMMP library before the feature freeze kicked in. Do we consider this work an effort to add a feature or fix a bug? I know there are plenty of people who would love to get this into the 0.43 release. Perhaps if I file a bug like "Inkboard doesn't work on Win32". :)
Bob had offered to port it a few weeks back, and I really think this should be done. This is such a killer new feature and if the win32 folk miss out it would be a shame. Plus we can utilize Google's jabber network with Pedro and we cannot with loudmouth. I personally think it should be fairly high priority, but then again that's just because I have a real need for it to work on win32 at this point. Just my .02
Who all is available to put effort into working on this in the near future? I think if enough people are willing to pound this out, we could justify including it.
I know that Bob had talked about doing it if David wasn't able to, and at that point David said he could... obviously that has changed since then and Bob has already reviewed the code and what needs to be changed, so he would definitely be the most qualified. Plus with Pedro being his baby, it seems like it would potentially be that much less painful. As always, and as I've been waiting for, myself and a couple friends are available for extensive Whiteboard testing.
In any case, it would be wise to do this on a cvs branch for the time being, so that the option exists to decide whether or not to include it later on. If it proves to be a lot better than what's there now, it can be merged; if it needs additional time, then there is the option of leaving it to merge post-release.
Sounds like a wise and safe way to go.
You can see how to work with branches on this page:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WorkingWithCVSBranches
Thanks for the pointer ;)
-Josh