[Qgis-developer] Call for packaging: QGIS 1.7.3

[William Kyngesburye]

Ready here on OS X.

On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Werner Macho wrote:

> Hi Developers and packet assemblers!
> 
> Thanks to the hard work of all developers and thanks to Alexander Bruy
> for backporting a lot of bugfixes I am able to branch the third
> maintenance release on the 1.7.x branch "release-1_7_3" as of today
> (10th Dec. 2011). There have been some nasty bugs left in 1.7.2 which
> should be cleaned out by now.
> 
> The source tarball is here:
> http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.3.tar.bz2
> and the md5 checksum is here:
> http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.3.tar.bz2.md5
> 
> You can check out this branch (depending on your git configuration)
> using:
> 
> git fetch origin
> git branch --track release-1_7_3 origin/release-1_7_3
> 
> If packagers would be so kind as to update http://download.qgis.org
> with links to their latest wares, it will be appreciated. I'll give a
> few days (and until we have Windows binaries at minimum) before making
> the announcement to the world.
> 
> Please note that I have reinstated maintenance of the CHANGELOG file
> in the root of the source tree, so consult that (or the
> help->about->whats new? tab after building) to see what changes were
> made. Some of the last minute commits will not be mentioned there.
> There are no new features in the release, only bug fixes and small
> tweaks.
> 
> I just say this is assumed to be the last 1.7.x release (but I cannot
> promise.. probably there will be another "strk"-release ;) ).
> There are already first API breaks in master branch on the road to 2.0.
> So probably expect a 1.8 somewhere appearing as the "stable" release
> without API changes giving the developers time to work out 2.0.
> 
> Hopefully I did everything right - forgive me if there are some mistakes
> - it's my first release done alone ;)
> 
> Best regards
> Werner 
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