From: Barry G. <bar...@ho...> - 2009-01-17 20:49:30
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Hi Mike and Fabien Great! Making Windows builds and binary packages are mere routine for me now. I do one ever morning while I am getting breakfast. Takes between 5 and 20 minutes depending on the amount of change. I did not mention before but I make regular binaries of Stellarium and place on CD's. These I hand out to friends and relies who visit. I also do a few computer repairs for these same people and I always install my latest build on their machines before they are returned and instruct them on how to use it. My binaries are much larger than the normal distribution binary because I add all my extra nebula textures etc. I also include the User manual and star catalogues up to 7. These will fit on a standard CD. If any one wants the 8th catalogue I also make the same data on a DVD. So Mike when you put a binary on launchpad let me know so I can test it for you. Oh and if anyone wants one of my CD's or DVD's let me know where to send it. Barry Gerdes Beaumont Hills Observatory S 33' 41' 44" E 150' 56' 32" 12" F10 GPS Polar mounted Home Page http://www.geocities.com/barrykgerdes > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:42:58 +0100> From: fab...@go...> To: ste...@li...> Subject: Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Launchpad downloads> > Hi Mike and Barry,> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Mike Storm <oop...@gm...> wrote:> > Well, I'm certainly not talking about a release binary, or even a> > release candidate. I just mean a development snapshot, since setting> > up the compilation environment on Windows is a pain. It would give us> > more feedback, and I can't see how it would hurt anything. Actually, I> > would have uploaded it already; I just wanted to make sure I didn't> > step on anyone's toes.> > I am totally OK for having snapshots for developments versions or> release candidates, especially on windows, but also on ubuntu (on> Launchpad there is the so called Personal Package Archive) or mac.> For me it's also OK if we have a try on Launchpad instead of> sourceforge for file storage for that. But for the time being it> should be clear to users that the official download point is> sourceforge.> > > As for releasing 0.10.1 - Fabien still seems to be working on that> > networking code. The translations might not be ready, as well, I'm not> > sure. Since some of the networking code now depends on Qt 4.5, maybe> > we could do what Barry suggests and branch off the 4.5-only code, then> > release 0.10.1 as-is? Then again, I'm not opposed to releasing with> > 4.5. On Linux it might be a problem, since the repos certainly haven't> > picked up the beta yet, but we distribute the DLLs on Windows> > ourselves. Just a thought.> > My tests with Qt4.5 were mostly to make sure that stellarium 0.10.1> will not fail when distribs upgrade to 4.5, after some bug fixes it> now seems OK except some tab icon rendering problems on linux, but I> currently see no reasons to release it even with Qt 4.4.3, it should> work also fine.> > As you noticed, I was testing network caching with qt 4.5, but it> seems not to be very stable, I also wanted to check whether this very> annoying network bug (that I reported at> http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=239098&method=entry)> was fixed, but it's not in the beta. So I guess the multi-resolution> DSS background feature release will have to wait one more version for> being included :(> > Apart from that, I uploaded the last translation .pot to rosetta, and> there are many new strings to translate so we need to motivate the> translators.> > >From now on, we should feature-freeze the SVN version and work on> removing the last known bugs. If everything goes well, we can maybe> achieve making the release next week :)> > Fabien> > > Mike> >> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Barry Gerdes <bar...@ho...> wrote:> >> I think that would be up to Fabien. I think that the current svn version is> >> at a stage where it could be immediately released as 0.10.1 as the last> >> version built with Qt 4.4.3 and then future work could be carried out with> >> Qt 4.5.0. The only Windows problems I have come across with the latest build> >> are the problem with the angle measure plug in and the Windows XP problem I> >> have in loading all the star catalogues, not present with Vista or Linux.> >>> >> I have not been able to build with sound but I think Matthew was able to> >> make a windows binary with sound.> >>> >>> >> Barry Gerdes> >> Beaumont Hills Observatory> >> S 33' 41' 44" E 150' 56' 32"> >> 12" F10 GPS Polar mounted> >> Home Page http://www.geocities.com/barrykgerdes> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:31:43 -0600> >>> From: oop...@gm...> >>> To: ste...@li...> >>> Subject: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Launchpad downloads> >>>> >>> Does anyone have any objections to me uploading the Windows binary> >>> installer for 0.10.0 to Launchpad? Also, since I got Inno Setup to> >>> compile the development versions, perhaps I could post binary> >>> snapshots of 0.10.1?> >>>> >>> Mike> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by:> >>> SourcForge Community> >>> SourceForge wants to tell your story.> >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword> >>> _______________________________________________> >>> Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list> >>> Ste...@li...> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel> >>> >> ________________________________> >> Find your ideal job with SEEK Time for change?> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> >> This SF.net email is sponsored by:> >> SourcForge Community> >> SourceForge wants to tell your story.> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword> >> _______________________________________________> >> Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list> >> Ste...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel> >>> >>> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > This SF.net email is sponsored by:> > SourcForge Community> > SourceForge wants to tell your story.> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword> > _______________________________________________> > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list> > Ste...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> This SF.net email is sponsored by:> SourcForge Community> SourceForge wants to tell your story.> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword> _______________________________________________> Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list> Ste...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel _________________________________________________________________ Messenger's gift to you! 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