Re: New Build

switching back to zvt at a later date is fine--just let us know before 
you do, so we can skip those builds. :)

-alvin



Luis Villa wrote:

>On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:59, jacob berkman wrote:
>  
>
>>i'm happy to announce that we got a green build :)
>>
>>i'm currently pushing a new build for red hat 7.2 and 7.3 which seem to
>>have working menus[1].
>>
>>new in this build is that gnome-terminal is using vte, the terminal
>>widget for gnome 2.2.  it does nifty things like reflow of text when you
>>resize the terminal, and can do aa text.  also the rendering bugs should
>>be gone :)
>>    
>>
>
>FWIW, the snaps are using VTE ATM because
>
>(1) if RH is going to use it, I want it to be as robust as possible so
>as to minimize the impact on GNOME's bugzilla. More crashes caught now
>mean fewer crashes when 8.0 is released, which is good for GNOME. [Red
>Hat don't see all the stack traces, so they aren't quite as concerned
>about it as I am.]
>
>(2) it appears that the current effort to fix bug 78007 has stopped
>momentarily, so we want to test vte's i18n and stability to see if the
>community will do better with vte in the long term. Currently lots of
>people in the community think we will but we can't know until people are
>testing it. 
>
>Most likely, if further attempts to fix 78007 or other zvt bugs are
>made, we'll switch back to zvt in an attempt to test those. But I can't
>honestly tell you if such attempts will be made or not, and if they
>aren't, and vte is sufficiently stable and functional that the community
>wants to switch to vte permanently, we'll probably stay there.
>
>Luis
>
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