Re: GTK+-2.0.0 release schedule

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> writes:

> Tor Lillqvist writes:
>  > This probably means that we will have to admit that GTK+ 2.0.0 won't
>  > work nearly as well as one could hope on Windows.
> 
> BTW, I have "almost ready" on my machine a largish set of changes to
> the gdk/win32 backend. Do you see any reason not to commit it during
> the next day or weekend? It am "almost" sure it doesn't make the Win32
> backend worse. It does simplify the code and make 256-color mode work,
> for instance. (I test it with the GTK+ test and demo programs, and
> won't commit until they work OK, of course. However, I don't currently
> have a GIMP 1.3 build environment set up, and unless I have the time
> to do that, I can't check with GIMP.)
> 
> As the Win32 backend in HEAD doesn't work very well currently anyway
> (IMHO), I don't think this should be held back because of the
> impending GTK+ 2.0.0 release?

I think it is OK to go ahead and make these changes. It looks like
we'll have to shoot for "official" win32 support only in 2.0.1
or 2.0.2, so we should target "works best" instead of "known stable"
for 2.0.0.

I might prefer if you held off until I get 1.3.14 out though; I'm
going to be doing the release for that today and a lot of churn
could make that more difficult.

Regards,
                                        Owen