[Schevo-devel] splitting gtk-support-3 branch

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

Matthew Scott wrote:
> Pat,
> 
> Can you briefly comment on the state of the gtk-support-3 branch?
> 
> I'd like to spend some time this week breaking out and reviewing the
> general Schevo enhancements you've made to it, so we can fold those into
> trunk for a September release.

That would be fantastic and now is a great time to do so.

> I don't want to do that if you are still on a tight deadline with it
> though.  I'm also not sure of your current confidence level with regards
> to the reliability and backwards-compatibility of the the upgrades and
> changes you've made to schevo.store, so if you could comment on that
> specifically that would be great.

I'm confident enough that I'm using it for my production applications.
I would be more confident if there were more unit tests, but that would
take time that I don't have at the moment.  So I'm willing to go forward
without them for the moment.  Unfortunately, the Durus unit tests (which
I have converted and all pass with my modified fork) are not as
comprehensive as I would like or would have expected.  For example, they
did not catch one edge case that I overlooked.  I have fixed that edge
case, but I could probably think of others that lack unit tests.  For
me, the memory savings of my durus fork are too good to pass up.

All in all I feel good about the entire branch.

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