On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 19:27 +0000, Bryce W. Harrington wrote:
What needs done, just get latest pixman and cairo into the ppa? I can take care of that if no one else is. What fix is needed for the build system, just checking the pixman/cairo version in autoconf?
I believe it is a matter of taking pixman/cairo (unreleased) version 1.13 (right?) making sure we have that available in our package and making sure our builds require it.
Has anyone talked about doing an alpha release? Esp. with the just landed GSoC work, would be a good way to get it out in front of people to shake out any bugs that crept in through that.
Technically every version of Inkscape so far has been alpha. No v1.0 because we're not feature complete. And I'd also hazard that the trunk build ppa system is equivalent to an alpha build.
What perhaps we need is a mellow freeze and a beta release. Thoughts?
Martin,