Re: [Tile-dev] Release plans

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je...@ac... said:
> While they may fill up a whole, it's nothing earth-shattering to many.
>  8.5 without Tile and/or oo might as well not be (IOW: can wait).

It's a damned POINT release!  Other people label point releases that have
nothing but bugfixes!

It has a number of new things: Bignum support.  Floating point
tk_precision cleanup. (You have no idea how important that is if
you're doing anything with numerics.) Dict. Ensembles.
[switch] enhancements. [return] and [catch] rationalization.
Greatly improved localisation ([source -encoding], [clock], [msgcat]
root locale).

It's got quite a number of appearance changes to Tk.  Xft, new checkbutton
and radiobutton L&F, multi-line text search, the new text scrolling, 
[grid] enhancements, tk_messageBox detail, , panedwindow stretch and 
hide, full-screen toplevels, [wm attributes] on Unix, tabulation control 
in [text].  Even without Tile, these changes will get some of the
loudest complaints about Tk off the table.

8.5 is getting to be a perpetually receding target.  We approve 
functionality for it, wait for it, by the time we have it implemented, 
we've approved more new functionality that we have to wait for, repeat 
until everyone is banging heads in frustration.

Conceded, it isn't even close to being all we hoped for.  But what
ever is?  There comes a time that you have to shoot the engineers and
ship the product.

And yes, I'm all for "9.0 in February, or whenever Tile and oo are ready."
Let's have a release cycle and not a tar pit.
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