I am not saying "don't do a point release", but I just wonder if we would be rushing a bit to do it yet? Are any of the bugs bad enough or are there enough bugs, to warrant a new release? If the bugs are not all that serious, perhaps we should wait another month or so and see if we get more bug fix commits first?
The majority of fixes in the point releases were critical issues so it was fine to back port them. And in the past for most releases we back ported several bug fixes after the first weeks too -- maybe this time a bit more than usually but that's still OK as long as we really fix critical or major issues only.
OK, no worries.
I wonder about this bug, issue #3943, its about auto-hiding of the solid when entering its sketch in PartDesign, if you turn that off (toggle its property) it still hides the solid but when you close sketch edit mode the solid remains hidden. As far as I know the bug has not been addressed yet.
looo wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 7:55 am
Git is now used for all freecad-feedstocks to get sources. So this shouldn't be a problem.
Great, thanks for the response. I'll wait a couple of days for wmayer and yorik to respond to some of the other requests.
I just don't want to let stuff that is backported wait too long. If the integrators make the effort to backport stuff we should use it. I agree with wmayer that only important stuff should be backported (I'm sure this will mean different things to different people). I think we are providing regular developer builds for 0.19 so the other stuff can be tested there.
May I suggest a recent PR, #2157: added try,except for OpenCamLib test on Path WB, be considered for backporting. Some users are locked out of the PathWB due to dependency issues, related to the OpenCamLib availability, hard coded into the PathWB. I believe this PR has eliminated the issue and is worthy of consideration for those interested in the Stable 0.18 release with a desire to harness the features in the PathWB without possible frustration from this problem.
@WMayer,
Nothing missed, Sir. I was of the mindset this (the OCL dependency for PathWB) was a pre-existing situation. It is not. I downloaded FreeCAD_0.18.16110_LP_11.11_PY2QT4-WinVS2013_x64_portable.7z and the PathWB is accessible without ocl.