[java-gnome-hackers] Release imminent

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

Hey all,

This has been a pretty casual period, but there are a few API additions
in and it's time we did a release.

There's also a fix for the initialization check, and that alone makes me
want to cut another tarball as soon as possible :)

There are a few outstanding issues:

The memory pressure thing is a looming problem, but as it is
"correct" (we're not leaking) it's not super urgent. I'd like to see us
address the issue, but we're first going to have to come up with a
really rigorous way of *measuring* the impact; watching
`gnome-system-monitor`'s Writeable Memory column while "doing stuff"
with a long-running app like Quill isn't exactly repeatable or precise.

The business with calling Dialog's run() in another thread blocking is
annoying. There's at least a workaround strategy so it's not something
we need to hold off the release for.

Guillaume is hard at work on RadioMenuItem, RadioAction,
RadioToolbarButton and others stuff. We've raised the prospect of
changing our RadioButtonGroup into just "RadioGroup" which would be
wicked cool, as having all these different -Group classes would be silly
if we can at all avoid it. THIS is something I would really like to see
in, so if Guillaume thinks he can work on it some more over the next few
days we'll give it a shot.

The only other major thing is Vreixo's events patch. That's partially
merged, and the bits that are in work, but I'm not sure it does
everything he needed, so he or someone will need to have a look at that
if it's important.

So I'll do a 4.0.15 release candidate early next week, and we'll go from
there.

AfC
Sydney

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