Re: Beta Release?

Anant Narayanan wrote:

Hi all, I think it's time we had a beta release. We're at 94.01% overall coverage (including the Scintilla and SourceView extensions) [1]; and have a significant number of new features/extensions since the alpha release; most importantly custom Tree models. However, before we go about it, we'll have to decide on whether to include the following: 1) 2.8/2.10 Support. Elizabeth has provided patches for this, and the build system will automatically build the latest version found on the system. I've extended this to work on Linux and OSX. 2.8/2.10 would nice. Since it will automatically detect it, it will make it more seamless... however, won't it make developing around a bit more difficult? Eg: program needs X functionality from 2.10 and it doesn't have it. Thus it will not work.

2) The GtkHTML3 and libsexy extensions. My current project depends on GtkHTML3, it would be great to see it in the full release instead of having to apply it myself. Same goes for anyone who wishes to use my program [still in heavy development, but it's coming ;-)] As well libsexy would be really useful.

3) Installers for Win32 and OSX. I have one ready for OSX. If Elizabeth/Steph can get around to making one for Windows in a reasonable time-frame, we can include that in Beta. Not too huge of a deal to me. Although it will make life a lot easier for testing across multiple platforms. Especially since just got my first Mac last week, and am still tinkering with it trying to figure it out.

4) Move to native Scintilla (Tom's Scintilla) instead of GtkScintilla. This one's on me and I'll get around to it soon enough. No comment here, not sure of the differences between Scintilla and GtkScintilla. :-P

Please pitch in with your comments. The quicker we come to a consensus on the 4 points, the better :) Best Regards,