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Re: Release notes
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Riccardo |
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Re: Release notes |
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Tue, 5 Jul 2005 23:32:28 +0200 |
Hello,
On Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at 04:08 AM, Adam Fedor wrote:
I updated the Documentation/ReleaseNotes.gsdoc for base and gui for the
next release. Please check it and add or change anything I forgot.
I still plan on making a release in 1 or 2 weeks.
I'd like to see some progress on the FreeBSD/x86 front before you make a
release (it worked in the past release but current CVS is broken since
some weeks, I filed a bug). Why ? because releases are "references" for
many aspects. Features for example. Application XYZ works with release
N.M. But essentially because releases are what people are most likely to
use and often only releases make their way into distributions.
I think it would be a good idea for the future to try to deliver a
working release on most (better, all) platforms gnustep runs on.
ALthough this kind of quality control is probably difficult to achieve
and probably overkill (as well as the definition of "works" is fuzzy)
I'd like to make the following points:
- it should compile and run usably (no major showstoppers) on Linux (x86
of course, ppc...) on FreeBSD/x86 and on NetBSD (x86, ppc, sparc). These
being the major free OSes gnustep is likely to be used on.
- in a second place there would be Solaris, OpenBSD and possibly Windows.
Windows and Solaris (especially now that there is OpenSolaris and
possible upcoming distributions like SchilliX) could open us some more
professional and more enterprise market.
We can argue about making a "must be working" OS list and I would avoid
that, criteria and personal preferences would clash. Most widespread OS?
Windows! and it is an important one, recent talks from Gregory (but
ironically I had a private talk with a developer the week before and
told that gregory) confirm that. Linux and *BSD are closer to us being
Free Software and we are after all GNU... we should work on Hurd :)
Also the entity of the "showstopper" can be argued. Some poeple here use
only gui, so glitches there are impportant, other poeple use more -base
and the web/database stuff.
But everyone wil agree that the failure to build -base is bad! :)
I wrote a long mail and I wonder if someone read it up to this line, but
the main concept is that we are pretending that gnustep is getting more
mature and usable (which, in my opinion, it is indeed). SO as we
approach "1.0" releases (see gorm) we should also try to act accordingly.
Thank you for your patience,
R
- Release notes, Adam Fedor, 2005/07/04
- Re: Release notes,
Riccardo <=