On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, bulia byak wrote:
After chatting with Ishmal, Mental, Bulia, and others, it sounds like we ought to shoot for cutting a near-term release, in the mid- to late-January timeframe.
It would be very nice if we could make scripting the main feature of 0.41. Thanks to Bob, this basically works already, though we need more sample scripts, more API, more documentation. Also Ben Crowell's Perl scripts and XSLT scripting are very nice features that should be more accessible, if possible, via the Scripts dialog or otherwise. And Ted has recently added the Effects menu, though I don't know how close it is to being useful.
What Bob and I had discussed a few days back was that 0.41 would include scripting as an 'optional dependency', in order to get it out in the wild for testing by bleeding edgers, but not make it a required dependency for regular users, "just in case". Like you say, there's still a lot to be done to get scripting fully fleshed out, but this would allow us to get some basic packaging/testing sorted out.
Are there other major features besides scripting? If so, perhaps for this release there could be two packages? This would allow us to provide scripting for the bleeding edgers, and a plain (but enhanced stability) version for those who aren't.
Bryce