Re: Gtk+ peer broken?

On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 23:00 -0500, Chris Pickett wrote:
> Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 23:45 +0100, Rene Wagner wrote:
> > 
> >>does the Gtk+ AWT peer in sablevm(-classpath) 1.1.10 work for anybody? 
> >>I'm testing with a simple test class that just pops up a window
> >>with a "quit" button in it.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, the AWT/Swing in 1.1.10 and current staging are horribly broken,
> > see http://sablevm.org/bugs/109
> > 
> > Any help with locating the problem is greatly appreciated,
> 
> Um, isn't that a _regression_ and sort of against the mandate of what 
> staging is supposed to be?  Isn't it better to rollback staging until 
> it's fixed (assuming a non-trivial fix is needed), and then when it does 
> get resolved release 1.1.10-1?  Or is there too much overhead involved 
> in that?

You can't rollback a release.

But in any case, this issue has to be fixed.  I'd rather see developers
being hit by the same problems as the users, so that the problems got
fixed.  Getting 2 months back with classpath is not an improvement.
OTOH a 1.1.11 release with this issue fixed would be one.

				GBP
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