My current thinking is that I'll branch and declare 1.8 beta in time for SIGGRAPH, and try to have an official release by 1 September.
So what this means is: 1. If you've been waiting for something that's in master that couldn't be backported to 1.7 for compatibility reasons, but you really prefer to be using an official release... your wait is almost over. 2. If you are sitting on a patch that you wish to submit (or you have a request for me to do something) that would result in a non-back-compatible API change that I won't backport, you have about 6 weeks to get it into master in time for it to be part of 1.8, otherwise if it makes too big a compatibility break, it probably won't be found in a designated stable release until 1.9. 3. After the branch and release of 1.8 as the official production stable version, the now-current 1.7 release branch -- which is the last version that will build with C++03 -- will go on life support, with really and truly only the most critical fixes patched. So if you are not yet on C++11, the time is drawing nigh that you will just need make the upgrade, or else live with an unchanging 1.7, or step up to fix any issues yourself. -- Larry Gritz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
