RE: dia future

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dia-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:dia-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Hans Breuer
> Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 6:01 AM
> To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> Subject: Re: dia future
>
> At 09.01.2009 09:53, Lars Ræder Clausen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:26 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> > > Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > 1) When do we make the next release? And what will it take?
> > > Fixing enough bugs to make it worthwhile is the minimum requirement.
> > > My goal is to have only about 50 bugs open when doing rc1. 
> Especially 
> > > no critical bugs must be open. (The one I'm working on is the font 
> > > size mess, e.g. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538499
> > > But also 108293, 120337, 162034, 345538, 438020
> > >
> > > > 2) When do we transition to a more recent version of Gtk? And what 
> > > > will that take?
> > > Very convincing reasons: either some new functionality only 
> available 
> > > with a newer version or some critical bug only available 
> with an  older one.
> > How about this reason: It'd stop you from having to go "it's in SVN, 
> > just compile that" to about half the feature requests on the list?
> IMO this is an indicator to stabelize for a release but not a 
> reason to release a known to be buggy version ;)
>
> > Seems to me that such answers are a clue that a new release is in 
> > order
> > -- shows that desired new functionality is available.
> Given that some people are using Dia in "production 
> enviroment" I think a minimal quality level must be assured. 
> And especially for the shiny (not anymore experimental) cairo 
> renderer it would be a shame to leave bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538499
>
> Having wrong font sizes in PDF, SVG, PNG, Antialized Rendering 
> and the new way to print would reduce this feature just too much.

Thanks for your work on this one, Hans. I hope you have squashed this once and for all!

I would love to test this under Linux and Win32, but don't have access to a Win32 build environment. Maybe a 
possible solution is to have a 0.97 RC1 soon (with a Win32 build, please Steffen?), with a couple of weeks 
before RC2 for people to really hammer it for bugs?

Thanks,
Rob.

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