Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

[Geert Janssens]

On maandag 7 maart 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
> 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?

No comments, just a +1 from me.

Geert