Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> 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.

I'm fine with it.  My only question is whether we should set up the
Windows build server to build trunk *AND* 2.4-branch on a nightly basis?

> Geert

-derek
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