[gtkmm] RE: GTK+ release soon?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 03:38, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > Is there likely to be a GTK+ release in the next couple 
> of days? It
> > > would be nice for our imminent GNOME Platform Bindings 
> > 2.5.2 release.
> > 
> > It would be nice, but I doubt it will happen. API issues are
> > my first priority this week.
> 
> OK. A release for the GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.3 instead 
> (scheduled for February 17th) would be very nice. I am 
> worried that gtkmm API will not get enough scrutiny if I 
> can't make frequent releases.
> 
> Please please ask someone to help you roll releases if you 
> don't have time - it should be a simple task.

Thank you for asking for volunteers to roll 2.2.x releases. That's seems
like a good move. I wish I had the extra time to set up my system to do that
for you.

But the lack of GTK+ 2.3.x release has caused gtkmm to miss yet another
Platform Bindings release schedule date. There has never been a GTK+ 2.3.x
release that is usable with gtkmm, though the GTK+ in cvs has been usable
with gtkmm for over a month. So I fear that not enough people are testing
new gtkmm API, although we are late in the schedule, with Platform Bindings
API freeze 1 month away:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

I will repeat my earlier dire warnings from a release-team email:

One thing that the GTK+ people can certainly do to help is to release
regular tarballs (ideally one for each GNOME 2.5 release), so that we have a
good chance of getting it tested. It disturbs me greatly that you seem to be
waiting for stuff to get into GTK+ before doing tarballs - please just push
it out into the world regularly. If we can't be sure when a GTK+ tarball
will appear then I fear a great deal more delayed GNOME 2.5 test releases.

Murray Cumming
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