Re: Woody's target GNOME release

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Christian Marillat wrote:

> >>>> "ACPI" == Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> writes:
>
> ACPI> Hello,
>
> Hello,
>
> ACPI> I'm curious, what's the target GNOME release of woody?  Should we be
> ACPI> aiming for a rock-solid 1.2, or are we confident that 1.4 will be stable
> ACPI> enough by woody's freeze?  Has any thought been given to this in terms
> ACPI> of consistency of packaging new upstream releases?
>
> For the last schedule see :
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-October/msg00010.html
>
> "In my estimation, end of November/ early December should be the target
> date."
>
> And for the latest announce :
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-1.4-list/2000-December/msg00004.html
>
> I've seen in gnome-devel "don't expect big changes in Gnome 1.4 like 1.0.50
> --> 1.2.0"

I see, this makes sense.  I was thinking it might include Nautilus and Evolution,
though I suppose those are more like apps than core/libs types of things.
I guess we'll see if they finally increment the soname of bonobo. :-)

It's a bit disconcerting to look at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/ and see very few new releases in
the last four months.  I guess this means there's a change of strategy, where
unstable 1.3.x material only appears in CVS, then will be released all at once as
1.4?  Then again, I don't remember many 1.1.x releases until 1.1.90.

BTW, I've been using 1.2 for a while now, and really like it.  It feels quite a
bit faster on my old 160 MHz PPC 603e than 1.0.5x did!

Thanks for the clarification/update,

-Adam P.

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