Early 2.2.7 release?

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:05 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > >         Is it reasonable to consider an quicker-than-usual release of
>> 2.2.7?
>> > >
>> > >     Funny you should ask that.  Andreas and I were discussing that
>> > >     on IRC earlier today.
>> > >
>> > > I think an earlier release would not be a bad idea, as I imagine the
>> bulk of
>> >
>> > We came to the same conclusion.  The date bug in particular
>> > warrants a quick turnaround to 2.2.7.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> OTOH, I will need at least one week to review the stuff pending.  I hope
>> to start this work this weekend.
>>
>> @Charles, have you checked whether there are interesting gnome package
>> updates?  Especially GTK+, ORBit2 and other such base packages may have
>> fixed some of the bugs happening on Windows.
>>
>
> I'm not quite sure what you are asking me to do here. I see that there are
> newer versions of GTK+ (2.12.11) and Orbit2 (2.14.13) available than what is
> specified in defaults.sh (2.12.8 and 2.14.11, respectively) but I can't tell
> if they fix anything relevant to GnuCash. The ORBit2 release notes are
> pretty short and cryptic so I really don't understand what has been fixed
> there, and I can't reproduce any of the reported problems myself anyway (for
> example, bug 510720).
>

Oops, the current default in defaults.sh for ORBit2 is 2.14.12, not
2.14.11.Regardless, the win32 binary for 2.14.13 is available now. The
source for
2.14.14 was released yesterday, so maybe a 2.14.14 binary will show up in
the next few days. I see that 2.14.14 includes some changes right near the
"Can't create CORBA main-thread wakeup pipe" error message. With any luck,
that might fix bug 510720. But since I can't reproduce that problem, I can't
test it either.


>
>>
>> @Nathan, do you think we can release 2.2.7 on the next but one weekend,
>> i.e. 30th/31st of August.  Also, is there a way to set up regular builds
>> from branches/2.2 so that volunteers may test before we release?
>> (Windows builds are still more complicated than Unix ones).
>>
>> Ciao,
>> -- Andreas
>
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>