Re: [Flightgear-devel] Towards the new Release

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Well, if some of you might have noticed, the release process is going
> somewhat
> slower than we had all hoped for I would just like to give a quick heads up
> though.
>
> First of all, there are two major reasons that are holding us back. 1)
> There
> are still a few bugs to be checked, in addition to investigating the
> possibilities of setting up a proper bug tracking system for FlightGear.
>
> Secondly, and as importantly, there is currently a considerable uncertainty
> with regards to the windows build. In the last couple of years, we've been
> able to distribute a very nice windows build, including a nice installer
> and a
> launcher, provided by Frederic Bouvier. Unfortunately, we've been unable to
> get a hold of Fred in recent months. I certainly hope that everything is
> okay
> with him, but in the mean time, we have to consider how to do a windows
> build.
> In particular, it would be very nice to have a similar version as what we
> had
> before. We have a very large windows users base, so I believe that this is
> important.
>
> So, I would like to explore some possibilities on how to do this. I have
> succesfully compiled FlightGear on windows in the past, but this was
> nowhere
> as advanced as the setup that Fred was able to provide. I know that a few
> people have experience in building on windows (Vivian Meazza, Olad Flebbe).
> So
> hopefully we can come up with a good windows equivalent.
>

Hi Durk,

For earlier releases I was involved in creating the windows install package.
 I think Fred just took my packaging script and updated the version number
for the new version.  I think I could get back up to speed on windows
packaging pretty quickly.  What I would need is a good clean efficient
windows exe (noting that historically there has been some significant
variation in performance and robustness in different windows exe's depending
on the individual developers build system and various choices.)  Fred always
built a solid fast executable.  The other piece I'm less familiar with is
the fgrun front end launcher.   But given good exe's for everything, I think
I can package them up reasonably well into a nice windows setup.exe.

Regards,

Curt.
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