----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Kerr" <char...@rebelbase.com> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 13:27 PM Subject: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond
> I've gotten my git account refreshed at gnome.org and have started > committing changes for 0.134. :) > > For starters what I'd like to do is get caught up with the other > libraries and tools that have changed since 0.133 came out. > The GCC 4.4 compile fixes that Daniel reported and that K Haley > has fixed in his github repo are an obvious example of that. > > Even more important, IMO, is getting 0.134 ready for GNOME 3. > Pan 0.133 uses a /lot/ of deprecated glib, gdk, and gtk API calls. > All those API calls are going away in GNOME 3. > If Pan isn't ready, it will go away too. > > Other "upkeep" issues in the same vein would be to support newer > versions of GMime and to use glib 2.14's regular expression API > instead of requiring PCRE. > > === > > Looking past 0.134, I'm not sure how much time I'll have for Pan. > Probably not much. Unlike the my last pre-0.90 hiatus, I don't > have a pile of new Pan code waiting in the wings... that hobby > time has gone to Transmission. > > I'm very happy that K Haley's repo exists, but we also need to > make official releases once in awhile, since that's what most > Pan users see. That requires someone with write access > to git.gnome.org and rebelbase.com. > > One model would be for me to do this, rolling things "upstream" > from github to git.gnome.org and making old-fashioned tarballs > once in awhile. > > Another model, which would IMO be better, would be a committee > of people existed to do these things, and if I were just one > of many people involved. I still have a special love for Pan, > but at this point I've got more love for it than free time. > > Lastly, I'm not sure there's any point in keeping these > awkward pre-1.0 numbers going any longer. I doubt anyone > except Duncan and me -- or maybe just Duncan, come to think > of it -- remember the remaining goals for 1.0. If we were > to name the next release 1.0, that would at least signal to > the rest of the world that Pan still has some life left in it. :) I'm not much of a *nix use (with zero coding skills) so I use the Windows version of Pan and like it very much. I sure would hate to see Pan wilt on the vine. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
