Re: Cairo-1.2.6 required

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 
> We are?  If the timeline is far enough ahead of GNOME 2.18.0 and
> doesn't introduce any big issues for us, I'm all in favor of it, but I
> just hadn't heard what the timeline for cairo 1.4.x is or heard anyone
> proposing it?  (Did I miss it during those weeks I was gone trying to
> finish my dissertation and somehow missed it when trying to catch back
> up on things?  If so, could someone point me to the thread I missed?).
>  Maybe Carl could comment?

I brought it up on IRC with the release team a couple devel releases
ago.  With J5 in fact.  We were supposed to switch over to the cairo
snapshot due that day, but that snapshot was delayed, and seems like the
move got completely forgotten.

I here propose that GNOME 2.18 depend on cairo 1.4.  To facilitate
testing, the beta release due tomorrow should require the latest cairo
1.3 snapshot.

Cairo 1.4 is currently scheduled for the end of January.  Possibly
slipping over, but I think we can commit to releasing it before Feb 12
which is the deadline for next GNOME beta release.  Carl?  Note that no
major work is expected between the current snapshots and 1.4.  Only a
few bugs to fix.  Does that sound good enough, Elijah?


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