RE: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: New releases and maintenance branc h created

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

> On Thu, 2004-04-11 at 17:20 +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> > > and I increased the gtk dependency from 2.4 to
> > > 2.5.
> 
> > Please don't do this until it is absolutely necessary (i.e. 
> we depend on some
> > new API).
> 
> I go one further than this and ask that we not bump it at all until it
> is absolutely necessary.
> 
> We are at a critical point now. We have some momentum here but we need
> to significantly grow our user, developer, and hacker base or else the
> project will be in danger of stalling out.
> 
> Downloading code from CVS just for java-gnome is one thing, but asking
> someone to track the entire unstable GNOME development is a 
> much higher
> hurdle.
> 
> So I for one would be very pleased if one could use & develop 
> java-gnome
> on top of an otherwise stable (2.8) gnome platform for some time to
> come.

When we joined the gnome platform bindings we comitted to attempting
to stay current with the gnome platform.  The means that our cvs HEAD
will almost always be bleeding edge and require trying to stay current
with gnome development.  Most developers that wish to use java-gnome
should choose to use one of the stable releases like 2.8.x.  Even
this releases require gnome 2.8 which is not widely distributed at
this time.

There are a large number of gtk APIs that we need to add prior to our
2.10 release.

http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/UpstreamAPIChanges

We cannot wait too long before starting this effort.  I propose we do
the following:

Release 2.9.2 - November 29
---------------------------
Retain gtk 2.4 dependency
Add 64-bit support
Focus on adding missing API to existing bindings
Fix currently reported bugs

Release 2.9.3 - December 20
---------------------------
We will need to move to gtk 2.5 here
Add gtk 2.5 API changes
Add gnome 2.9 API changes
Add Windows compilation support

Release 2.9.4 - January 10 API/ABI Freeze
-----------------------------------------
Finish adding gtk and gnome API changes


This would mean that we have 25 days to create a release
that has the missing API you need.  Let me know what you
think.

-Jeff


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