[haiku-development] Re: The R1alpha4 Release
- From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:32:38 -0700
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Today is October 1, which was a date we were considering for release,
> but obviously that won't be happening.
>
> Nonetheless I do think the r1alpha4 branch is in fairly decent shape.
> I just merged most of the relevant commits from master and applied
> Matt's patch to update BeZillaBrowser.
>
> There are a few optional packages which need to be updated (mainly Vim
> I think, which just needs to be uploaded to haiku-files.org, and then
> OptionalPackages can be updated.)
>
I have now pushed the updates for Caya, Ocaml, OpenSSH, and Vim.
> Another concern I have is the subpixel text rendering support, which I
> have some partial work to fix. I should be able to finish that with a
> few hours work. Then we just need a FreeType optional package with the
> subpixel rendering support compiled in.
>
The bep for making the FreeType optional package with subpixel
rendering enabled is in HaikuPorts, it just needs to be built and
uploaded by someone who lives in a FREE country, which means not me.
> If anyone else has any other concerns about the release, post them here.
>
> In general I think we should move into a fairly official testing
> phase, and aim to release in two weeks, on Monday October 15.
Sounds like a good target.
-scottmc
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