[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] plan for 3.0 release and dropping GTK2 support

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

Daniel,

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> We made the last release (v2.0) way back in Jan this year. There are plenty
> of patches accumulated in GIT since then, so we're way overdue for making
> a new release.

Agreed!

>
> Thus I'd suggest that we plan to make a v3.0 release in 1 week time on
> Wed Dec 2nd.  With that in mind any pending patches should be reviewed
> and merged in the next few days.

I'd like to ask for 2 weeks (and then have the release done on Wed Dec 9th).
The reason for that is I have to go through the dependencies for
mingw-virt-viewer that changed on f23 and have them updated on
msitools. Is it reasonable for you?

>
> Furthermore, I suggest that we officially declare 3.0 release to be
> the *LAST* main line release to support GTK2 and GTK3 in parallel.
> ie the relase 4.0 should be GTK3 only.

Agreed!

>
> If we need to do further fixes for GTK2, we can create a v2.0-maint
> branch and have minor point releases (2.1, 2.2, etc) for that purpose,
> but the bulk of new development be GTK3 focused.

Sounds like a good option!

Best Regards,
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Fabiano Fidêncio