Re: Feature freeze exception for Pango

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

tir, 09.01.2007 kl. 10.20 +0100, skrev Frederic Crozat:
> Le lundi 08 janvier 2007 �7:43 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a �it :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As you probably know, we added vertical writing support to Pango this
> > cycle.  While the base has been committed for quite a while, there are
> > some remaining bits still sitting in bugzilla for my review, and some
> > missing bits too.  So, I want to get permission to commit some new API
> > after feature freeze and before January 15th.  This includes mostly the
> > patch in [1] after revision, plus some markup attributes for the new
> > glyph direction support.
> > 
> > Note that since Gtk+ is not releasing a new stable series for this GNOME
> > cycle, the vertical text API in Pango will most probably go unused for
> > GNOME 2.18 anyway, but I really want to have the complete, functional,
> > API in Pango 1.16, instead of some bits missing.
> > 
> > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323173
> 
> Here is one approval from a release-team member. 
> 
> These kind of API usually take time to get used by applications, so it
> is better to ship them as early as possible, even if isn't used by gtk
> in GNOME 2.18 timeframe.
> 
Ditto

Cheers
Kjartan