releasability update

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On tisdag 05 oktober 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > > On tisdag 05 oktober 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > > > * the lcms2 module? 
> > > 
> > > why ?
> > 
> > If krita is less table with lcms2 than with lcms1, we probably shouldn't
> > tempt distributions. Maybe marking it as experimental is sufficient, but
> > we've already had questions about it before.
> Sure if it is less stable... but is it ? I am using it, and I don't get any 
> crashes from it, or broken things. I think I have ironed out all known 
> regressions.

That's way cool! Then I can reinstall lcms2 as well :-)

> 
> > > > * compilation against unreleased versions of opengtl?
> > > 
> > > well, we might as well do it for any library...
> > 
> > In this case we know that krita will compile fine but crash, right? So
> > that's a bit scary.
> Yes on the other hand, no distribution goes to the trouble of using opengtl 
> from mercurial. They usually upgrade when either Krita stops supporting older 
> version, or when llvm is upgraded, but then they will get a released version. 
> And anyway, I am going to fix the crash really soon :)
> 
> And on the other hand, it makes testing harder for us, the current development 
> version of opengtl is going to be released before 2.4, meaning that we will 
> have to make sure that krita 2.3 works with it.

Okay, that makes sense.

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