Now the cairo branch is merged...
...would a release be in order? I remember we were longing for Cairo back in 2006! This branch merge is a very big deal! Joel
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
...would a release be in order?
There's some more stuff happening IIRC.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 AM, 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.
Two months would be the minimum, however Krzysztof's GSoC work this year will add much more value to our using cairo, we certainly want that in too. The other GSoC students work very much will be appreciated too with standards compliance and refactoring-wise. Plus, we want a stable cairo release with the bug fixes in the devel one to be out in the wild as well. As mentioned in another thread, I wouldn't expect to see it before October so we can properly test it (definitely subject to change).
Cheers, Josh
On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Josh Andler wrote:
Two months would be the minimum, however Krzysztof's GSoC work this year will add much more value to our using cairo, we certainly want that in too. The other GSoC students work very much will be appreciated too with standards compliance and refactoring-wise. Plus, we want a stable cairo release with the bug fixes in the devel one to be out in the wild as well. As mentioned in another thread, I wouldn't expect to see it before October so we can properly test it (definitely subject to change).
Well...
If we could have a release almost done by July 27th, I can highlight it in my talk at OSCON. :-)
Then again SVG Open is October 17-20th, so that also is good timing.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Josh Andler wrote:
Two months would be the minimum, however Krzysztof's GSoC work this year will add much more value to our using cairo, we certainly want that in too. The other GSoC students work very much will be appreciated too with standards compliance and refactoring-wise. Plus, we want a stable cairo release with the bug fixes in the devel one to be out in the wild as well. As mentioned in another thread, I wouldn't expect to see it before October so we can properly test it (definitely subject to change).
Well...
If we could have a release almost done by July 27th, I can highlight it in my talk at OSCON. :-)
Then again SVG Open is October 17-20th, so that also is good timing.
Let's target SVG Open instead... Also, Jon, here's something to demo... Stretch an object which has a stroke with the selector tool, we finally do this right. (I can see the deluge of bug reports now) ;) I'm quite thankful ~suv pointed it out.
Cheers, Josh
On 06/24/2011 02:49 PM, Josh Andler wrote:
Stretch an object which has a stroke with the selector tool, we finally do this right. (I can see the deluge of bug reports now) ;) I'm quite thankful ~suv pointed it out.
Yay, that had already stopped bothering me a long time ago.. It had too, because it was very annoying and at the same time very hard to fix. I didn't see this fix coming, so thanks a lot!
To all: With all these great improvements and side effects, please do not forget to mention them in the release notes (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49)
BTW, is anyone still working on the new website? It's been quite quiet in that area lately (and hence I'm cross-posting this to the user list). I want to put compilation instructions online for Fedora 15. Will these be retained when posting to the old wiki?
Diederik
On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Josh Andler wrote:
Let's target SVG Open instead... Also, Jon, here's something to demo... Stretch an object which has a stroke with the selector tool, we finally do this right. (I can see the deluge of bug reports now) ;) I'm quite thankful ~suv pointed it out.
Reminds my of my current favorite MSVC compiler warning which translates to roughly "Warning, our compiler is no longer broken". It's quite annoying if one turns on warnings-as-errors.
Compiler warning C4345 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wewb47ee%28v=VS.90%29.aspx
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