On Mar 12, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > 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, That's OK. Quartz has been on 2.20.1 for most of 2.3, and I'm using 2.24.0 locally; it will go in the next release. If you're going to work on 3.0 migration, you need to be using 2.24 too (see http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html). Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
