[Gambas-user] When does trunk become the stable release?

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoît,
>
> are there any plans to make a future trunk/development release the
> stable one?
> ie have a new feature freeze and work on bug fixes for a period.
>

Yes, but at the moment it is "when it is ready".

"When it is ready" means:
- Qt4 component.
- WebKit component.
- DBUS component.
- Database manager integration.
- ASP-like web pages in the IDE.
- Web application development in the IDE.
- Structure support in the interpreter.
- ...And many other little things for sure.

Only the Qt 4 component is done at the moment, and the database manager 
integration has started.

So there is a lot of things to do yet. I know this is a problem.

I will try to do a feature freeze as soon as possible. But I don't know which 
feature I could remove from that list. Maybe the DBUS component, Structure 
support, and other little things can be done later...

> I'm using Gambas 2.x for some time now, but I want to have new v4l2 and
> other goodies, but it must be a stable version.
> One that compiles without problems on major distro's and has valid
> prerequisites.
> Maybe it was a better plan to make Gambas3 fork off to a stable one just
> before the major work was done on supporting qt4?

It is always a chicken and egg problem...

>
> Don't get me wrong, you are doing a hell of a job on getting the new gfx
> libs working, and it looks very very nice, but I think that the gap is
> becoming too big between stable and development version.
>
> What are your thoughts about this?

I don't think at the moment the gap is so greater between Gambas 3 and Gambas 
2 than it was between Gambas 2 and Gambas 1.

>
> And did anyone made a list about things you need to change in your code,
> when you want to switch over?
> Can you install/run both versions on a development system without
> getting into trouble somewhere?

Of course, Gambas is designed so that you can run all different versions on 
the same OS (provided that they compiles with newer versions of the 
libraries).

Regards,

-- 
Benoît