Re: [Devel] Release of freetype 1.x

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I see basically two solutions:
> 
> - one is if the GnuWin32 project accepts to cooperate, and decretes
> that this 1.4 release from them was in error.  Then, we could
> proprely (and soon) release ourselves a "real" 1.4 version, with
> anything we currently have (this includes the change in licensing)
> and probably lacking testing, but this will then allow them to
> produce a correct 1.4 package (which would probably had to be named
> 1.4a, but that is another problem).
> 
> - the other is to "accept" the 1.4 release as they did; I believe we
> could "release" posteriorly a "1.4.0" version, using the very set of
> sources they did use; then, almost immediately, we would release a
> 1.4.1 version, including the changes we currently have (and the
> change of licensing).

I propose another option: skip 1.4 completely, saying that there is no
official 1.4 release, and produce 1.5.

>  - in case of bug-fix, we'll do a bit a regression testing (to be
> defined more carefully) and then made available publicly a new
> 1.4.n+1 release.

BTW, I fear that there is the still charmap format 2 bug which has
been fixed recently in FT2...


    Werner