On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Dear developers,
> 
> I propose to branch a 2.4-stable branch now, so that we can introduce several 
> pending changes on trunk without risking to loose the stable code state we 
> have in 2.4.3.
> 
> Pending changes for trunk are:
> - Requiring guile-1.8 (i.e. throwing out guile-1.6 support)
> - Requiring gtk-2.16 et al., and (as soon as we upgraded the windows webkit 
> binary) gtk-2.20
> - Adding Andy Clayton's python module addition [1] so that python scripts can 
> be used inside gnucash
> - Adding Andy Clayton's javascript and jqplot patches [2] so that reports 
> with javascript can be used
> - Throwing out gtkhtml, requiring webkit
> 
> These are enough useful changes which may introduce a temporary instability 
> so that we should branch off the stable branch. I would have loved to see 
> this branch creation done in a more branch/merge-friendly version control 
> system, but well, this seem to have to wait. For now we should go ahead with 
> this branch and enable cool new features on trunk.
> 
> Questions? Comments?

I thought that we'd decided on Gtk+-2.18.1 for 2.6, based on that being in RHEL 
6.

As I said Saturday, I hope to have the clonable Git repository up today or 
tomorrow.

Regards,
John Ralls

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