[poppler] Beta 3 release status

[Josh Richardson]

Albert, you are correct -- it doesn't matter to me when it goes in.  I
know others are waiting for it, but I imagine they can build from git and
won't have to wait 3 months.  Thanks for asking!

--josh

On 8/28/11 2:02 PM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

>Hi all, tomorrow is the supposed day for 0.18 beta 3.
>
>Of the 6 items listed in the todo:
>
>2 have been commited:
> * [Bug 38586] support text rotation
> * pdftocairo
>
>1 is not a feature (so can be introduced later):
> * BOM and endianness of poppler::ustring class
>
>1 is in regtest process (looking good)
> * Creating PDF with poppler ?
>
>1 is yet to be finished:
> * Form-Reset and Print [patches]
>
>1 is yet to be code reviewed:
> * [Bug 39385] pdftohtml: add image and font extraction
>
>Since we are already ultra late with the 0.18 release i am proposing to
>postpone the yet to be finished and the yet be code reviewed to poppler
>0.20 
>(that is supposed to be released "only" 3 months after 0.18 is released).
>
>Obviously i do not care about the patch yet to be finished to be delayed
>(or 
>otherwise i would not be suggesting this) so Josh, what do you say about
>delaying a bit the release of your patch?
>
>I understand that you would not care much either since it seems you are
>already using it internally, right?
>
>Thanks,
>  Albert
>