[Gimp-print-devel] RFC: New release and abandoning MacOS?

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

I'd _really_ like to see a proper, full release go out; I'm still 
getting bug/support issues about 5.3.3, which is the last release we 
actually announced... nearly four years ago.  While we did cut a 5.3.4 
tarball, we never announced it to the world, holding back due to the
lack of a sane/working MacOS installer.

In the subequent 2.5 years, things are even worse today on the MacOS 
front, as Apple has continuted to iterate on their platform vision in a
way we've just not been able to keep up with.

Meanwhile, there have been more printer additions and even more 
bugfixes, and I think it's past the time we cut a new release so maybe 
our first answer to nearly every support request won't be "uninstall 
whatever you got from your distro and compile Gutenprint maually"

Additionally, since we can't meaningfully support MacOS at all any more, 
IMO it makes more sense to just walk away from it entirely.  Once we get 
a "Gutenprint Printer Application" working for the brave new 
IPP-Everywhere paradigm, we can revisit releasing that for MacOS if it 
still makes sense to do so.

Thoughts?  

 - Solomon
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