[Java-gnome-developer] New releases and maintenance branch created

[Jeff M. <ku...@gm...>]

We finally got the cvs premissions issue resolved over night last night so
we made two releases this morning.  An official announcement will be
sent out shortly.  

What does this mean for you?  I'll try to summarize here:

Stable code
We released 2.8.2 this morning.  The source tarballs are on the gnome
ftp site.  We also created a cvs branch to continue to maintain the
stable code.  The branch is called MAINT_2_8.  If you wish to checkout
the stable code you will need to reference this branch like:

cvs -z3 co -r MAINT_2_8 java-gnome

As we make changes to the HEAD we will apply appropriate bug fixes
to this branch and will continue to make periodic releases.

Development code
We also released 2.9.1 this morning.  The only change from 2.8.2 is
the version created and I increased the gtk dependency from 2.4 to
2.5.  Over the next week or so we will be increasing the additional
dependencies to force java-gnome HEAD to build with gnome cvs.
If you wish to stay current with development I would suggest you
use jhbuild to maintain a current gnome environment.

The HEAD is where new development will take place.  This code 
should be considered unstable.  Since we have started our 2.9 
development effort we will now be able to make API additions.  
I know several of you have posted patches to add missing 
functionality.  We will be applying these patches over the next 
few days.

-- 
Jeffrey Morgan

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he becomse by it"
    - Jon Ruskin