Re: [Easytag-mailing] A weekend of EasyTAG hacking, and a request for review

[David King <amigadave amigadave com>]

On 2012-11-27 12:06, David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:
> This leads me to a suggestion, which is that maybe it would be better to
> take the GTK+ 2 and build system updates that I have, together with some
> distribution patches, and make a release containing those, releasing a
> GTK+ 3-compatible version after that. I think that this would be better
> for distributions and users, as it is a phased migration away from the
> old GTK+ 2 UI and dependency, and should hopefully remove the need for
> most of the current distribution patches. As an example roadmap:
>
> * merge my GTK+ 2 and build system changes, fix outstanding open bugs
>   (https://github.com/stsquad/easytag/issues?page=1&state=open) and
>   release 2.1.8
> * merge GTK+ 3 changes (I should complete those within a week or two)
>   and release a 2.1.9 with an optional GTK+ 3 UI
> * make a 2.2.0 release with a GTK+ 3-only UI, where GTK+ 3-only features
>   are used for the first time

I went ahead and hacked up a version with minimal GTK+ 3 support, which 
is now available on github in the same location as previously:

https://github.com/amigadave/easytag/tree/autotools

After playing with the GTK+ 3 port, there seem to be several 
inconsistencies, so I have marked the feature as experimental (in the 
configure script) and made GTK+ 2 the default. Run configure (or 
autogen.sh) with the "--with-gtk3" argument to enable GTK+ 3 support. I 
would be happy for the current state, plus a few more fixes, to be 
released as 2.1.8, followed by a 2.1.9 release after some GTK+ 3 UI 
inconsistencies have been fixed.

I have not tested the Windows build, the Debian package nor the .spec 
file, so those could do with being checked and updated.

In addition to the GTK+ 3 changes, I merged some downstream patches from 
distributions and applied various other minor fixes. Please test the 
changes thoroughly and let me know what you think.

Enjoy!

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