Re: Cairo-1.2.6 required

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

tir, 23.01.2007 kl. 10.33 -0700, skrev Elijah Newren:
> On 1/23/07, Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no> wrote:
> > tir, 23.01.2007 kl. 00.00 +0000, skrev Chris Wilson:
> > > Hi,
> > >       today I had the misfortunate to experience a crash with
> > > gnome-terminal. Fortunately Carl Worth was on irc at the time and was
> > > able to diagnose the problem as a known crash with cairo-1.2.4 and
> > > forwarding an X display across a heterogeneous network.
> > >
> > > To quote,
> > > "Oh, this isn't the stupid -= 4 bug is it?"
> > > "If it's the bug we're thinking, then 1.2.6 should fix it."
> > >
> > > The suggestion is to update them minimum version of cairo required to
> > > 1.2.6 in
> > > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies
> > >
> > I think we're really aiming to use cairo 1.4.x for GNOME 2.18.x so it
> > would make more sense to update the dep to 1.3.12 which is the latest
> > snapshot.
> 
> We are?  If the timeline is far enough ahead of GNOME 2.18.0 and
> doesn't introduce any big issues for us, I'm all in favor of it, but I
> just hadn't heard what the timeline for cairo 1.4.x is or heard anyone
> proposing it?  (Did I miss it during those weeks I was gone trying to
> finish my dissertation and somehow missed it when trying to catch back
> up on things?  If so, could someone point me to the thread I missed?).
>  Maybe Carl could comment?
> 
>From cairo/ROADMAP:

Targets
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Gnome 2.18 - http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen
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Looks like early January would be a great time to get cairo 1.4 out.

I don't know how they're progressing towards this goal though.

Cheers
Kjartan