On 28-3-2013 22:14, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2013/3/28 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
As for merging stuff like the grids/guides branch, if you feel okay with merging that as is and if it's complete enough to not break anything, please feel free to merge it. This is a refactoring cycle and we have 11 blockers for a release with some of those probably waiting until late summer for Krzysztof to work on them. I also have to throw out that I still don't believe the cairo folk have added the api hooks to utilize the new pixman bitmap scaling stuff... so we may still be waiting a bit on upstream.
Jasper's recent temporary solution of scaling the image on our side, then using Cairo only to rotate / skew might be acceptable for the common case of embedding photos.
We really shouldn't release if we already know it will be a downgrade from the previous release.
-Johan
(this week I told a colleague that maybe he should upgrade to 0.48.4 for some fixes, and he did so. Shortly after I received a mail telling me that he could no longer get grid-snapping to work (anybody working on fixing the very broken settings system and restoring the previous behavior?) and that memory usage had exploded, so he went back to 0.48.2, and I guess he'll never think about upgrading Inkscape again)