Re: Reevaluating the 2.4 schedule

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 05:18, Russell Francis wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> Is there any chance of GtkCellRendererProgressBar patch making it into 2.4
> bugzilla id: 117064

Maybe. I hope to get to it soon.


	-Kris

> 
> Thanks,
> Russ
> 
> >>Another thing that needs doing is to go through 2.4 API milestones
> >>for glib and gtk+ in bugzilla, there are:
> >>
> >> - Big things that aren't going to make 2.4
> >> - Little things that we might as well do for 2.4
> >> - Little things that aren't going make 2.4, because we have
> >>   to many big things to do even if the little things are easy.
> >> - Patches sitting around ready for review
> >>
> >>It would be really nice if we could get these milestones down to
> >>the things that we really think are going to make 2.4, instead
> >>of the clutter that is there now.
> > 
> > 
> > Ok. As a start, here is my breakdown of the glib 2.4 API milestone. It
> > has 24 bugs, of which 13 have a patch attached (marked with a '*' below)
> > 
> >  - Big things that could / should / must make 2.4
> > 
> > *105894 Support properties on interfaces
> > *63621 Add GAtomicInt for atomic integer operations
> > 
> >  - Big things that aren't going to make 2.4
> > 
> > 80498 Added function g_io_channel_new_pipe()
> > *110528 collecting value arrays is inconvenient
> > 100948 g_value_set_string_take_ownership should be official
> > *111848 function to canonicalize file names
> > 
> >  - Little things that we might as well do for 2.4
> > 
> > 72545 g_readlink
> > *78414 g_queue_remove() and g_queue_remove_all()
> > *80487 A generalized accumulator for signals that return gboolean
> > *94879 can't remove more than one item at a time from an array
> > 98536 Add g_timer_continue()
> > 99226 Add G_HIDDEN
> > 100763 Add g_unsetenv()?
> > *88329 Add g_strtokenize()
> > *97556 Eel functions for adding message comments should be moved to
> > 101053 Should be able to block signal handlers on signal id
> > 
> >  - Little things that aren't going make 2.4, because we have
> >    to many big things to do even if the little things are easy.
> > 
> > 81040 G_TYPE_GTYPE is missing from fundamental types
> > *83729 Patches to add iterators to GLib  
> > 87761 read-write locks have no upgrade mechanism
> > *103710 Why is there no G_MININT32/16/8, G_MAXINT32/16/8, G_MAXUINT3
> > 107397 G_TYPE_BOILERPLATE wanted, as replacement of GNOME_CLASS_BOI
> > 113697 g_ptr_array_sort_[with_data] is twisted
> > 113075 support "nonnull" attribute
> > *51639 Equivalent of __FUNCTION__ for Sun's compiler
> > 
> > Matthias