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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

No file formats will be harmed during any v5 point releases. ;)  I'm
fine with rolling out a 5.1 with the gtk3 changes.  I'm even willing to
include some of Jeff's dialog work.  Any functional changes such as the
new file formats or the GALification of eeschema is all v6.  The reason
we need to work on this early in the v6 development cycle is that the
more v6 deviates from the v5 branch, the more difficult it becomes to
cherry pick changes.  The last few commits I cherry picked into the v4
branch were painful so I would like to avoid that as much as possible.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 05/20/2018 07:55 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> ​The discussion of 5.x releases was delayed but perhaps seems relevant
> again.  Should we plan for a 5.1 release as Simon suggests with a goal
> of working GTK3?​  I'm not sure that I agree with his preference for
> banning non-GTK3 patches but I do have a preference for avoiding file
> format changes during 5.x releases.
> 
> -S
> 
> 
> 
> Am So., 20. Mai 2018 um 16:41 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh
> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 05/19/2018 09:36 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > On 18.05.2018 17:38, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     >
>     >> I propose we spend some time immediately after the v5 release
>     >> and fix the gtk3 issues before we start making major changes to
>     the code
>     >> base so that it is not difficult to back port.  Anyone else have any
>     >> thoughts on this?
>     >
>     > We could make that official, and just announce that the next release
>     > after 5.0 will be 5.1, for which only GTK3 changes and bugfixes
>     will be
>     > accepted.
> 
>     I would hope that the development team understands the issue.  I don't
>     want KiCad to be unusable in a large number of modern Linux distros nor
>     do a want the distro packagers to have to jump through a lot of hoops to
>     get KiCad to build.  I would rather not have to drop the hammer but I
>     could if it came to that.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     >
>     >    Simon
>     >
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