Re: Time to think of version 5.2?

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: sfeam <sf...@us...>
> To: gnu...@li...
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> Date: 2017/5/13, Sat 13:15
> Subject: Time to think of version 5.2?
> 
> All opinions welcome!
> 
> It has been 3 years since the initial release candidate for version 5.0
> (5.0-rc1 May 2014)
> 
> I am thinking that it's about time to split off a branch of the current 
> development
> source tree that will become version 5.2.   The development tree itself will 
> then
> be renumbered from 5.1 to 5.3.
> 
> This would not by itself mean that we are ready to put out a 5.2-rc1 for 
> testing,
> but it does mean that after the split new patches applied to the
> development branch would not automatically also affect the stable branch 5.2.
> For that reason I don't want to make the split if there are a bunch of 
> patches
> likely to arrive soon or fixes that will be needed for both the stable and 
> development
> branches.
> 
> So I'm asking.
> 
> - Are there any outstanding issues that should be fixed before an initial
> testing version of 5.2?
> 
> - I know that Bastian has been gradually converting the Windows code from 
> GDI/GDI+ to a newer DirectWrite API.  Is this in a reasonable state or is there 
> more work coming that should go in before branching off 5.2?
> 
> - Are there any other arguments for or against starting a 5.2-stable branch?
> 
> Regardless of timing of a 5.2 branch I expect that there will be a release
> 5.0.7 in Sep/Oct of 2017.  
> 
> 
>     Ethan 

Great! I completely agree with your proposal.

Tatsuro