On 23 June 2011 at 10:06 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:


> On 23-06-11 10:43, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> > ...would a release be in order? I remember we were longing for Cairo
> > back in 2006!
>
> I wouldn't recommend it. People have of course had some time already to
> test the branch, but I doubt many people did. Now that it is in trunk
> anyone working on Inkscape will be using it and it's not exactly
> unrealistic to assume that at least one or two issues will come up.
>
> > This branch merge is a very big deal!
>
> Yes it is! And I'm very, very glad that it has finally happened, but
> doing a quick release after just having merged it might not be the best
> thing to do. I do agree that we probably don't want to wait too long,
> but I'd at least give it a month or two. 
I completely agree with you. If we move in that direction, then we'll be ready
quite soon. 
 
I wouldn't necessarily advocate having a new about screen and trying to create a
huge media circus around such a release, I'm just keen to get this into the
hands of distros sooner rather than later.
 
Joel 

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