Re: mixture of HEAD and gnome-2-0 break things

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 27 Sep 2002, Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> hi,
> 
> another aspekt that i want to come up with. we all know that compiling
> gnome 2.0 from cvs right now depends on a mixture of gnome-2-0 and head
> branches. since a couple of days things start to become unconfortable
> for gnome-2-0 now because:
> 
> a) developers concentrate on HEAD only.
> b) because these developers did not made a gnome-2-0 branch for their
>    modules.
> 
> a good example (which i reported to alex l. already) is librsvg which is
> tagged HEAD and recently got a bunch of new scalability code inside. now
> if someone compiles a STABLE gnome (a gnome that is not meant to break)
> we get funny icons with jimmac's gorilla theme. maybe it's just a theme
> issue because it's not fixed for the new code. but what i want to point
> out here is that it may be good to branch the stuff before applying new
> code to anything which may end in an "experimental condition". i fear
> that these things may also happen to other modules. so please if you
> develop on HEAD please consider making a gnome-2-0 branch of your module
> first so people that still deal with stable stuff can use the stable
> stuff.

I just made a branch for librsvg at the last released 2.0.x tag. I don't 
expect there to be any development on this branch, but you may want to 
point your build scripts for stable gnome 2.0 to it.

There is no actualy binary compatibility breakage in librsvg HEAD, but it 
renders SVGs more correctly, especially in the area of units. This means 
that some SVGs (scalabel gorilla for instance) now render the icons at the 
wrong size. This should be fairly easy to fix, since librsvg now supports 
the viewBox attribute.

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