Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

[Christian Stimming]

Dear developers,

I propose to branch a 2.4-stable branch now, so that we can introduce  
several pending changes on trunk without risking to loose the stable  
code state we have in 2.4.3.

Pending changes for trunk are:
- Requiring guile-1.8 (i.e. throwing out guile-1.6 support)
- Requiring gtk-2.16 et al., and (as soon as we upgraded the windows  
webkit binary) gtk-2.20
- Adding Andy Clayton's python module addition [1] so that python  
scripts can be used inside gnucash
- Adding Andy Clayton's javascript and jqplot patches [2] so that  
reports with javascript can be used
- Throwing out gtkhtml, requiring webkit

These are enough useful changes which may introduce a temporary  
instability so that we should branch off the stable branch. I would  
have loved to see this branch creation done in a more  
branch/merge-friendly version control system, but well, this seem to  
have to wait. For now we should go ahead with this branch and enable  
cool new features on trunk.

Questions? Comments?

Best Regards,

Christian

[1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-January/030965.html
[2] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-February/031154.html