eric’s extremeboredom

This was posted to the mailing list yesterday, nobody else blogged it so I figured I might as well:

We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for
people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release
is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API stability guarantee
for the new 2.8 API. Again, this is a source only release and the
tarball is available for download at:

http://go-mono.com/sources/gtk-sharp-2.0/gtk-sharp-2.7.1.tar.gz

Since 2.8 is a relatively small API change over 2.6, we hope to quickly
move to stability. If you find any issues, with the new API, please
raise them promptly to ensure they are fixed. As always, please file
bug reports for any issues at http://bugzilla.ximian.com under product
gtk#.

It is very important for as many people as possible to test this release and report any problems so 2.8.0 can go out the door as soon as possible. Hopefully starting after 2.8.0 we can start to see new versions of GTK# released very soon after new releases of GTK+, so mono developers dont have to wait 6 months before being able to take advantage of new features.

I have a breezy repository with Mono 1.1.10 and GTK# 2.7.1, but if you use it please remember that these are NOT official packages and are very very likely to break your system.

deb http://packages.filefind.net/ ubuntu-breezy dotnet

If you have any problems with them do NOT ask for help on the mailing list or in any IRC channels, please contact me directly.

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