On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:12:39AM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
--- On Sun, 5/1/11, corvid <corvid@lavabit.com> wrote:
From: corvid <corvid@lavabit.com> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] next release of dillo? To: Dillo-dev@dillo.org Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 1:18 AM Globe Trotter wrote:
just wondering when the next release of dillo will be, i.e. if there is a planned timeline? we appear to be at dillo2.2 for a while now?
IIRC, maybe a month or two ago, Jorge wanted to wait until FLTK 1.3 was released before making any Dillo releases at all, but it seems that users find fltk bugs at the same rate that developers fix them ( http://fltk.org/roadmap.php#1.3 ), so...
Yes, i know, thanks! Hopefully, fltk1.3 will not go the same way as fltk2.
Fortunately fltk1.3 seems to be going in a very different way, with near five active core developers, which have done lots of work on it the last months. Since rc3, the devs focused on utf8 issues on different platforms and also widget printing (these tasks are quite complex), while also doing STR work. OTOH, for years (as I do review the changelogs) FLTK2 has mainly "nominal" updates (i.e. one-line patches or really minor stuff). This group is responsive too: e.g. http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2615 (closed in one day)
IMO, dillo's adoption seems to be negatively affected largely because of the uncertain pace and status of fltk....for instance, fedora repos are not updating dillo from 0.8.6 simply because it is based on fltk2, which is not released and perhaps will never be,
That's was exactly my main point for going with fltk1.3. We saw that our way into official distro repositories (i.e a distro-packaged dillo) is banned because of the unreleased library. The possibility of a statically linked package, though technically possible, is banned by distro's policy too: they don't include statically linked apps. because of the nightmare of maintenance/security it conveys (quite understandable). So, while we don't have an officially released underlying toolkit we're out of distros. :-P Making a new, dillo-2.3 release is not much of a point because people using dillo already have to get it from us and build it themselves, which they already do. When fltk-1.3 is released we could make a dillo-2 final release letting users know we're going with the dillo-3 series. Although if somebody comes with a good reason to make a dillo-2 final release now, we can make it. -- Cheers Jorge.-