On Mar 7, 2011, at 6:43 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > 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.
I should add that I have no objection to branching 2.4 now; I was reacting to your wish for a branch-friendly (actually merge-friendly... subversion does a fine job with branching; it's merging the branches back in where it falls on its butt). Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
