[gs-devel] Re: We are frozen for the 8.63 release

[Marcos H. Woehrmann]

Ralph,

I've opened bug 689983 for a strange regression with 148-11.ps.  I
don't think it's serious enough to block the release, but wanted to
let you know.

marcos

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com> wrote:
> The fateful day has arrived, and we're in code freeze. I'll do a release
> candidate in a few hour for wider testing. Our goal is to do the final
> release on August 1st.
>
> There's been a flurry of last minute commits over the weekend. Please hold
> any further changes you'd like to make until after the release. If you have
> any issues you feel are release critical, please flag them as critical in
> the bug tracker and bring them up for discussion here.
>
> Outstanding issues I'm aware of:
>
> * Ray wanted to set COMPILE_INITS=1 for the default MSVC build. It doesn't
> look like this has happened yet.
> * Is the CID font substitution issue resolved?
>
> Things we were hoping to get in which I now assume will wait until after the
> release:
>
> * Ken's C rewrite of the colour space parsing code
> * My AES encryption support
> * Ray's move of the postscript library into the Resource tree
>  and merge of geninit's functionality into mkromfs.
>
> Thanks for everyone's hard work getting things polished up. I'm looking
> forward to the end of the week.
>
>  -r
>



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Marcos H. Woehrmann marcos.woehrmann at artifex.com