Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

[Fred Kiefer]

Thank you Ivan,

I just checked on GitHub and the releases are there, but this time they don’t 
contain „Assets“. For adding the files to OBS I need a .sig file in addition to 
the .tar.gz file.

Fred


> Am 02.01.2018 um 00:07 schrieb Ivan Vučica <address@hidden>:
> 
> This is now done.
> 
> Together with updating docs it was about 20-25min of work.
> 
> Cutting no-changes releases of back is not fun. Do we need to do it?
> Will -gui reject -back with mismatching minor version?
> 
> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'll take a look at it.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I am terribly sorry, but we will have to follow up with a gui/back release 
>>> 0.26.2 immediately. One of the changes I made between the preparation and 
>>> the final release broke printing with CUPS, which I didn’t test in between. 
>>> This has been fixed in git already but is broken in the release. As CUPS is 
>>> probably the most popular printing mechanism at the moment, we should 
>>> correct this immediately. And as the release has been out there for a day 
>>> already it won’t be possible to just provide a new tar with the same 
>>> version number.
>>> 
>>> I apologize for the extra work this is causing.
>>> Fred
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 31.12.2017 um 19:12 schrieb Ivan Vucica <address@hidden>:
>>>> 
>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>> 
>>>> 1 ANNOUNCE
>>>> **********
>>>> 
>>>> This is version 0.26.1 of the GNUstep GUI library ('gnustep-gui').
>>>> 
>>>> 1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?
>>>> ====================================
>>>> 
>>>> It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely
>>>> in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon Apple's Cocoa
>>>> framework.  The library has been enhanced in a number of ways to take
>>>> advantage of the GNU system.  These classes include graphical objects
>>>> such as buttons, text fields, popup lists, browser lists, and windows;
>>>> there are also many associated classes for handling events, colors,
>>>> fonts, pasteboards and images.
>>>> 
>>>>   The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts.  The first part is
>>>> the front-end component which is independent of platform and display
>>>> system.  This front-end is combined with a back-end component which
>>>> handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to
>>>> X/Windows.  This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the
>>>> "look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to
>>>> the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display
>>>> systems.
>>>> 
>>>>   The GNUstep GUI Library requires the GNU Objective-C compiler, the
>>>> GNUstep Base Library, the TIFF Graphics library, Independent JPEG
>>>> Group's libjpeg library, and a back-end component from the GNUstep
>>>> 'Back' library.
>>>> 
>>>>   Additional functionality may be enabled by installing additional
>>>> libraries.  For example, to build the Cairo backend in the GNUstep Back
>>>> library, you will need to install Cairo.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '0.26.1'
>>>> ==========================================
>>>> 
>>>> This version is released to conincide with version 1.25.1 of
>>>> gnustep-base, which contains changes required for this version of
>>>> gnustep-gui and gnustep-back.
>>>> 
>>>>   It includes an important workaround for users of GNUstep Objective-C
>>>> Runtime (libobjc2) and non-fragile ABI to avoid a bug in interaction
>>>> between the clang compiler and the runtime when non-fragile ABI is in
>>>> use.  Specifically, Clang and the runtime may disagree on what is the
>>>> offset of an ivar in a class's RAM. This manifested in a crash at
>>>> application startup due to misalignment of _gcontext inside NSThread.
>>>> See the mailing list discussion
>>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2017-12/msg00129.html)
>>>> for more information.
>>>> 
>>>>   It also contains the following changes:
>>>> 
>>>>   * tests: Cleanup of warnings.
>>>>   * tests: Fix text system deallocation test.
>>>>   * printing: Undefine __BLOCKS__ before including cups.h, as some
>>>>     versions of the header expect that libdispatch is present and used
>>>>     if __BLOCKS__ is defined.
>>>>   * graphics context: Workaround for Clang+libobjc2+nonfragile ABI
>>>>     issue.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
>>>> =================================================
>>>> 
>>>> The gnustep-gui-0.26.1.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
>>>> <ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core>.
>>>> 
>>>>   It is accompanied by gnustep-back-0.26.1.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
>>>> which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
>>>> using:
>>>> 
>>>>     gpg --verify gnustep-gui-0.26.1.tar.gz.sig
>>>> 
>>>>   Signature has been created using the key with the following
>>>> fingerprint:
>>>> 
>>>>     83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679
>>>> 
>>>>   Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
>>>> instructions.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.4 Where do I send bug reports?
>>>> ================================
>>>> 
>>>> Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
>>>> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep> or send bug reports to
>>>> <address@hidden>.
>>>> 
>>>> 1.5 Obtaining GNU Software
>>>> ==========================
>>>> 
>>>> Check out the GNUstep web site.  (<http://www.gnustep.org/>), and the
>>>> GNU web site.  (<http://www.gnu.org/>)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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