Re: Default GUI or CLI for 3.8

[c.]

On 22 Nov 2013, at 17:30, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:

> As a way out of this morass, I propose that we release with the legacy
> behavior of launching the CLI.  A command-line option such as "--gui" would
> be used to launch the GUI.  This benefits legacy users who would finally
> get the many other great changes in the code base over the last two years
> and still have a rock-solid platform.  And it would be trivially easy for
> people who want to play with the GUI to add a single command-line option to
> their invocation.  It also gets us out of any promises, implied or stated,
> that the GUI should work as perfectly and seamlessly as the CLI for this
> release.
> 
> Is this an acceptable compromise?

This sounds like a perfect solution to me!
c.