Re: cairo 1.4.0 now available

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:37 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 
> On 3/6/07, Carl Worth <cworth cworth org> wrote:
> > GNOME should be able to update its dependency for cairo from cairo
> > 1.3.16 to cairo 1.4.0, (1.3.16 was a release candidate for
> > 1.4.0---there have not been any API changes between the two
> versions).
> 
> Awesome, great work.  A few points will be deducted from your score
> for being just over a month behind your original schedule and running
> so close to the GNOME 2.18.0 deadline, thus making me worry that you
> might not be getting a release out before GNOME 2.18 was due.
> However, the speed and coolness of the new release will make up for
> it.  ;-) 

Yeah, sorry about that.  Cairo's release management is still young and
learning.  We are going to work on a more timely release management
plan.  In this case, a few issues popped up that delayed the release.
I'm going to blog them extensively.


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