On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:01:36PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1798...> wrote:
Here is how we can solve this for the release.
Bulia, the new standard Windows dialog was implemented by Kees in Nov/Dec/Jan in r16655, r16860, r16865, r16866 (and maybe a couple others I missed.) Please test reverting these and prepare a patch-set which removes the new print system and restores the old one. Post this patch to bug 179988 and assign it to Ishmal. Please get this done and tested as soon as possible (today or tomorrow preferrably). Hopefully it should not take very long.
If we can get this reversion patch by tomorrow, then we can avoid dealing with the question of whether to delay, release without windows, etc. etc.
I don't think I will be able to test it properly - I don't have a printer hooked up to my Windows laptop so I cannot really try printing from Windows.
Since this task has not been achieved, we seem to have little choice than to take the alternative of releasing 0.46.0 as a Linux/OSX only release, with official Windows support being postponed to 0.46.1. Several people including Bob Jamison have spoken up for this alternative, and I hope the silver lining of this cloud will be stimulating more windows folk to get involved in the maintenance of the windows port.
Thanks, Bryce