[GEM-dev] shall we release?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeay releases!  This is just in time for the 0.40.3-extended release,  
so maybe we can all work together to whip people into a testing frenzy.

I just tested some bug reports too...

.hc

On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:08 AM, cyrille henry wrote:
> hello,
>
> "Release early, release often”
>
> 0.90 was release many years ago, so yes, i think release is a good  
> idea.
>
> Cyrille
>
>
> IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
>> even though i have already mentioned it in my emails regarding the  
>> w32,
>> i would like to ask you what you all think of doing a 0.91 release of
>> Gem within the next weeks.
>>
>> for me, the main reason to not release was, that there were no recent
>> binaries for w32, and i have been unable to produce them for a  
>> while (i
>> just gave up after 3 fruitless days several times). for whatever  
>> reasons
>> i have been able to produce binaries, so we should use the  
>> opportunity:-)
>>
>>
>> so far, nobody has yet complained about the w32 binaries i posted, so
>> they seem to run stable.
>>
>> remaining issues are:
>> - OSX: marius' reports of flickering (could you be a bit more  
>> specific
>> as to what "flickering" means exactly?)
>> - linux: crashes on window-close with intel-based gfxcards
>> - linux: lqt backend of [pix_record] still crashes sometimes (i  
>> really
>> suspect that it is lqt not fullfilling what it promises in the
>> API-documentation)
>>
>> we probably could just release now (with these issues), and put out
>> bugfix-releases once these issues are solved.
>>
>>
>> mgfa.sdr
>> IOhannes
>>
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