Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Mar 7 09:49:56 EST 2011


On Mar 7, 2011, at 6:43 AM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:53 AM, 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?
> 
> I thought that we'd decided on Gtk+-2.18.1 for 2.6, based on that being in RHEL 6.
> 
> As I said Saturday, I hope to have the clonable Git repository up today or tomorrow.

I should add that I have no objection to branching 2.4 now; I was reacting to your wish for a branch-friendly (actually merge-friendly... subversion does a fine job with branching; it's merging the branches back in where it falls on its butt).

Regards,
John Ralls



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