Re: stable search

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, vernon adams <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On 15 Nov 2013, at 10:10, Nathan Willis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Friends, romans, countrymen,
> >
> > ...So try as I might, I haven't been able to find a commit from any time
> in the past three or four weeks that won't segfault on me (well, on my
> SFDs, to be more precise).  Does anybody have a personal recommendation for
> the last period of relative stability?  I'm really not interested in the
> collab features, so I can compile without those, but I've been trying to
> step back to (for example) before the multichar stuff started going in.
>  Haven't quite found it yet.
> >
> > Vern, on issue 945 you said you only started seeing class-based kerning
> crashes in "the last few" pulls -- what was the most recent one you didn't
> have trouble with?
>
> Not sure exactly which commit that would have been. You would have to try
> those from about a 6-7 days ago. however, I have (so far) found that the
> latest commits, from fbda480a5733c619a0b45dcf37cfd7bde06bd53f on, have not
> repeated the same issues that led me to report bug #945. A serious
> SFD-related bug was definitely fixed by
> 2493cba30c60d9296902150a683c04c8b2319177, but still could be related bugs
> still lurking. I worked all day yesterday in fontforge (both OSX and
> debian) without problems with my SFD files, but… you didn’t :) so it would
> be good if you could reproduce your crashes and report it. Feel free to
> send me any offending SFD too, i am happy to look at it and report whatever
> issues i find with it.
>
>
Thanks V.   I had pulled yesterday morning, so fbda480a57 is probably where
I was.  I haven't been able to track down the precise SFD problem yet,
since I don't have any test files, just the ones I'm supposedly working on
(which are big).  But soon; I have saved gdb backtraces from the current
$HEAD crashes ever since I saw that they were repeatable.  Right now I'm
just trying to build something I can stick with.


> >
> > I'm really just interested in updating my local version to the nicer
> editing/canvas/UI stuff; otherwise I've been happy with my vintage 2012-era
> build --- classic lines and all. The other features are cool, but not
> nearly as big a part of my daily workflow…..
>
> I sympathise with this. As much as i back the recent changes and the
> direction they are going, i still think there’s a very good reason for
> ‘harvesting’ a branch of what you describe as ‘vintage 2012 era’ fontforge,
> leave it as a ‘stable release’ , whilst the development continues on, as it
> is doing, at the tip of the project.
>

Yeah, back in the ol' days <scratches long gray beard>, rolling a release
was common practice.  It looks like the gh Milestones are dead & gone,
though.  I sort of feel like there are more than enough significant
features already to pin down a 2.0 non-"beta".  Not that the actual number
means anything....


> On a related subject; it’s a real shame that the sortsmill fork is such an
> impenetrable beast to build from latest source, for us pedestrian software
> users.
>

Wow, I haven't even tried, at least in recent memory.

Nate

-- 
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