On maandag 7 maart 2011, 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? > Christian,
Since you proposed the branching and most people agreed, I was more or less expecting you to commit the branch. Is there something you are still waiting for to go ahead, like the git repo being in place or something ? > I thought that we'd decided on Gtk+-2.18.1 for 2.6, based on that being in > RHEL 6. > 2.18 seems a fair base choice indeed. The windows build will likely use a more recent version since 2.18 was pretty buggy there. But that doesn't mean the base line should be more recent either. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
