Re: GnomePrint : Its time for some autumn cleaning

[ghee teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Hi Jody,
	It's good to hear that some works are going into this now. That would 
give use a good few months to make things right for 2.6 release :)

What is the branch tag? Now that I have integrated some of the excellent 
 works by Dave and Chemo into our distros, I would like to at least 
follow some of the discussion here ;)


-Ghee


Jody Goldberg wrote:
> Thanks to the wonderful folk at Ximian I'm going to get a chance to
> start picking up the slack in libgnomeprint* and get development
> kicked back into gear.  
>
> After some discussion with Chema I've joined the MAINTAINERS file,
> and started reviewing some pending patches.  As you've probably
> noticed the trees have been branched and there is now a :
>
>     WARNING
> 	This is the _development_ branch, and currently requires unreleased
> 	versions of gtk+ out of CVS.
>
> to HEAD.  Please note that I do not claim to know my way around the
> tree from an implementation perspective as yet.  Hopefully, that
> will change quickly.  Given the current state of the tree we've got
> our work cut out for us.  Some of the topics that seem high on the
> priority list are :
>     - merge in Ximian's cups work
>     - improve integration with fontconfig and pango
>     - fix the memory explosion associated with the meta stream 
>
> I'll be triaging bugzilla shortly to get a feel for things.  Please
> post pet bugs and irritations to the list and we can start getting a
> TODO list in place.
>
> Best Wishes,
>     Jody
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Thanks,

Ghee Teo