Re: [brlcad-users] [brlcad-news] BRL-CAD 7.12.2 is released

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

Kathy,

The latest Windows installer for BRL-CAD 7.12.2 was just recently  
uploaded.  It should now be available at http://sf.net/projects/ 
brlcad ready to be downloaded.  Please do send in a bug report or  
feature request if something isn't working quite as you expect it to,  
or send a note to the mailing list to discuss.

Cheers!
Sean

Bug Reports:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=105292&atid=640802

Feature Requests:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=105292&atid=640805



On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Cook, Kathy wrote:

> Where do you get the latest Windows install?  http:// 
> sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad shows 7.8.0 as the latest BRLCAD  
> for Windows.
>
> Thanks,
> Kathy Cook
>
> From: brl...@li... [mailto:brlcad-news- 
> bo...@li...] On Behalf Of Christopher Sean Morrison
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:23 AM
> To: brl...@li...
> Subject: [brlcad-news] BRL-CAD 7.12.2 is released
>
> Bringing together many months of effort from the BRL-CAD  
> developers, we are proud to announce the release 7.12.2 of BRL- 
> CAD.  Included in this release are numerous enhancements to the  
> Windows port, a new INTAVAL geometry importer, return of the  
> "clone" command to MGED, and much more.  There are too many changes  
> to describe them all in detail so please do consult the NEWS file  
> or ask questions on the mailing list for any items of interest for  
> additional information.
>
> Windows port: Coalescing after just over a year of concentrated  
> development efforts, this major update brings together a plethora  
> of enhancements, bug fixes, and additional tools ported over to the  
> Windows platform.  Notably, the Windows-specific improvements  
> include fixing various issues with file management, porting many  
> more of the available ray tracer applications, adding all of our  
> geometry converters (excl. external plugins), text edit support in  
> MGED, porting most of the framebuffer tools, and adding MGED  
> classic mode support.  There are still areas of development needed  
> for the Windows platform port to be considered "complete", but this  
> release does mark a major upgrade and is a huge improvement since  
> the last 7.8.0 Windows binary release.
>
> INTAVAL converter: This release includes a new geometry converter  
> for the United Kingdom's INTAVAL format from Her Majesty's Ministry  
> of Defence.  Through a jointly developed open international  
> collaboration effort by TNO PML and IABG mbH, the new INTAVAL  
> importer has been incorporated into BRL-CAD as a contributed  
> module.  Their efforts exemplify the excellent collaboration  
> potential available throughout the BRL-CAD open source community  
> for developing and deploying tools quickly.
>
> Clone command: Of the numerous bug fixes and feature improvements  
> in this release, one of the biggest productivity enhancements is  
> the addition/return of the MGED "clone" and "tracker" commands.   
> Clone is a very simple yet very powerful command that provides an  
> intuitive means for performing patterned deep copies of objects.   
> Tracker provides an interface for replicating objects along a  
> spline path.  These 'new' commands originate from modifications  
> originally developed by Adam Ross, formerly of Geometric Solutions,  
> Inc.  After receiving considerable updates and rewrites from other  
> developers to once again make the tool work again with the latest  
> BRL-CAD API, clone and tracker are now working and once again  
> available in MGED.
>
> Also included in this release is an update to Tcl/Tk 8.5.  This  
> update by the Tcl/Tk team brings us one step closer towards  
> providing a non-X11 based distribution on Mac OS X as well as a  
> variety of bug fixes and other enhancements.  There is also a new - 
> k option to RT for generating "cutaway" images; there is a -u units  
> option available to RTAREA for specifying the units to use on  
> output; NIRT correctly backs out of geometry regardless of size,  
> and there is a new -d depth option available to the MGED "tree"  
> command.
>
> Finally, this release also marks a major change to the BRL-CAD  
> source code repository with a move from CVS to Subversion recently  
> completed.  The conversion was successfully completed with the  
> entire history of BRL-CAD development preserved, accounting for  
> nearly 25 years of continuous active development.
>
> Since the 7.10.4 release, there have been at least the following  
> significant user-visible changes to BRL-CAD:
>
> * new pinewood boxcar example geometry database
> * add mk_arb5, mk_arb6 and mk_arb7 to libwdb
> * added xclone command to mged for xpushed deep copies
> * fixed clone infinite loop for combinations
> * wrap mged resource paths with spaces
> * new -k 'cutaway view' option added to rt
> * improved mged classic mode display manager selection
> * fixed mged crash when getting forms of sketch objects
> * new -u units option added to rtarea
> * added uniform binary object creation to mged GUI
> * added e, l, o, i options to mged saveview command
> * automatic redraw updates after Geometry Browser edits
> * improved Geometry Browser mouse behavior in mged
> * make fast4-g use GIFT_material=1 and los=100
> * fixed Mac OS X 'ogl' framebuffer crash
> * removed ogl framebuffer multiple window 'm' option
> * tree -d option in mged for limiting tree display depth
> * added mouse color query support to OpenGL framebuffer
> * fixed X11 framebuffer colormapping bug
> * libpng updated to 1.2.25
> * fixed several mged I/O bugs for stdin/stdout/stderr
> * nirt now uses bounding sphere for -b backout option
> * document the signals rt responds to for progress
> * Tcl/Tk updated to 8.5.1
> * mged now runs in the foreground by default
> * fixed g-dxf bug where incorrect object name is assigned
> * fixed browser-based mged help on Mac OS X
> * added rest of BRL-CAD's geometry converters for Windows
> * added more missing framebuffer tools to Windows port
> * rtwizard enhancments for ghosting and display
> * mged reports failure if ray-tracer returns non-zero
> * improved mged corrupt geometry file handling
> * improved dbconcat object suffix and prefix options
> * fixed PIX image file creation bug on Windows
> * ported rtwizard to function properly on Windows
> * fixed mged text-editing commands on Windows platform
> * removed duplicate points text-editing ARBs in mged
> * improved mged ted line-ending support using Wordpad
> * fixed g_diff bug where some differences were missed
> * fixed bug evaluating metaball normals
> * improved metaball primitive rendering
> * fixed bug in mged rcc-cap command when using 't' option
> * mged classic mode now works on Windows platform
> * fixed Windows-specific raytrace framebuffer delay
> * new tracker tool for extracting NEWS tracker data
> * converted source repository from CVS to Subversion
> * new 'dir2ae' mged command for getting az/el from dir
> * new 'ae2dir' mged command for getting dir from az/el
> * fixed empty name crash when using mged 'lt' command
> * Pro/E plugin allows spaces in part name mapping file
> * Pro/E plugin creates 'top.#' if 'top' already exists
> * fixed asc2g bug on Windows that caused a crash on exit
> * fixed bugs in several Utah Raster Toolkit tools
> * fixed mged start-up initialization bug on Windows
> * graceful handling of mesh normal failures
> * fixed variety of g-iges and other exporter crashes
> * fixed crash-on-exit cleanup bug in g-off exporter
> * fixed crash when xpush was called on a primitive
> * fixed Windows port 'opendb' command crash
> * added configurable max_dist depth option to rtedge
> * added rest of BRL-CAD's ray-tracers to the Windows port
> * enabled embedded framebuffer support in Windows port
> * fixed garbled output during parallel crash reports
> * fixed memory deallocation bug in the raytracers
> * renamed 'hd' hexadecimal dump utility to 'hex'
> * renamed procedural 'wall' generator to 'masonry'
> * mged 'tol' command now accepts multiple tolerances
> * fixed non-normalized vector bugs with ARBN objects
> * pix-png warns if PNG is smaller than the PIX input
> * new tgf-g INTAVAL importer
> * removed longjmp warning message from applications
> * upgraded bundled incrTcl to version 3.3
> * fixed bug with -g/-G cell size options to rt
> * 'tree' command without args now shows e'd objects
> * new pix-fb -p option to pause before exiting
> * fixed mged 'B' command behavior with -A and no args
> * removed raytrace image continuation code
> * new mged 'clone' command for performing deep copies of objects
> * new mged 'tracker' object routing command
> * fixed crash in mged ls -A attribute listing command
> * fixed dbconcat of empty combinations, crash in mged
>
> Special thanks to all of the BRL-CAD developers and other  
> individuals that contributed to this release including John  
> Anderson, Sean Morrison, Erik Greenwald, Bob Parker, Daniel  
> Roßberg, Ed Davisson, Cliff Yapp, Elena Bautu, Pedro Giffuni, and  
> Karel Kulhavy
>
> See http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk/ 
> NEWS for the full list of changes for each release.
>
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