Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

[John Ralls]

On Mar 12, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On maandag 7 maart 2011, 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?
>> 
> Christian,
> 
> Since you proposed the branching and most people agreed, I was more or less 
> expecting you to commit the branch.
> 
> Is there something you are still waiting for to go ahead, like the git repo 
> being in place or something ?
> 
>> I thought that we'd decided on Gtk+-2.18.1 for 2.6, based on that being in
>> RHEL 6.
>> 
> 2.18 seems a fair base choice indeed. The windows build will likely use a more 
> recent version since 2.18 was pretty buggy there. But that doesn't mean the 
> base line should be more recent either.


Geert,

That's OK. Quartz has been on 2.20.1 for most of 2.3, and I'm using 2.24.0 locally; it will go in the next release. If you're going to work on 3.0 migration, you need to be using 2.24 too (see http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html).

Regards,
John Ralls