Re: [ANNOUNCE] GARNOME 2.17.3 -- "do not go gentle into that good night"

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Peter,

The 2.17.x branch is the _unstable_ branch. GARNOME is just pushing the
envelope a bit further.

-Joseph


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On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:04 +0000, Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:29:02 +0100, guenther wrote:
> 
> snip...
> > 
> > We just released 2.17.3.1.
> > 
> > This basically is an "impatient release" brown paper bag release.
> > Kjartan was in charge for the official GNOME release, and he happily
> > accepted a *late* new cairo tarball, no earlier than 2 hours before the
> > end of the scheduled release day (and hence about 2 days late). This
> > came as a surprise to us. :)
> > 
> > 
> Forgive my ignorance, but cairo is not a gnome project, so I am confused
> how it could affect the release plans or be placed anywhere in the gnome
> tree. Is something now dependent on cairo >= 1.3.6?
> 
> According to: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies
> 
> cairo 1.2.4 is all that is required.
> 
> > To share the love, 2.17.3.1 incorporates cairo 1.3.6 (which fixes some
> > important issues) as well as as 2 other bumps that have been rolled in
> > between. Enjoy!
> > 
> 
> Thanks for any clarification you can provide! Keep up the good work.
> -- 
> Peter
> +++++
> 
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