Re: 4.0 vs 3.8 again

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 11/19/2013 11:58 AM, c. wrote:

On 19 Nov 2013, at 17:11, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

> the main reason is that, although the GUI is a huge difference it is 
> still terribly buggy, at least on OSX where I am testing, I'd prefer 
> a new major release to be more stable.

BTW, although I'm mostly looking at the GUI because, as you say, 
that is a HUGE new feature, problems on OSX 10.9 are not only there,
I still see ~15 test failures in 'make check'.

c.

Is it worth considering a 3.8 release without the GUI, and a 4.0 release with
GUI when the GUI is definitely suitable for general use on all platforms?
This may satisfy the differing views about 3.8 and 4.0 and avoid releasing
a buggy GUI.

Michael