gEDA-dev: Next gEDA release?

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 07:48 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Any ideas about our schedule for a new release of gEDA?  It seems that
> a lot of improvements have been made in the code base in a nuber of
> projects, so it may be time to think about a new release.  I think not
> only of gEDA/gaf, but also of PCB, gerbv, gnucap, and so on.

This sounds great. I'm really hoping that this will all be stabilised
before January, as there is a deadline for new software getting into the
next Ubuntu release (Hardy), which is long term supported.

I _really_ want to see our best work for the whole suite being shipped,
as this distro will get a lot of users.

> Related question:  Is PCB's GTK HID in a decent enough shape to have a
> release to the masses?  Based upon the complaints I have read here, I
> am wondering.....

Works for me (with the one outstanding patch which hasn't been
committed). I did a "dumbed down" (or is that "sensible defaults")
version for CUED, and it seems to work ok.

> I'm kind of thinking that I could spin another gEDA CD, since there
> have been a (small) handful of requests for it, and I'll have some
> time between Christmas and New Years when I can fool around with
> developing software.  To do so, however, it is important to know which
> versions of the various tools are the last "known working" releases.

That is important.. for example.. would you want to ship a gerbv with
cairo support on? Can it be made fast enough in the time available?

Best wishes,

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Peter Clifton

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