Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [Stellarium-devel] release date

[Barry G. <bar...@ho...>]

I would love to see an early release of a stable 0.10.3 version so that the problems that we haven't found yet get reported. Adding new features should be put on hold till the present problems are sorted out. Particularly universal  packages for different systems. At the moment there are different problems with Mac's, Linux and Windows.
I have been building in Windows XP for a long time now and the last reasonably stable version was at build 5545. 
 
I make packages of what appear to be stable Windows builds and hand them around to my friends and I still get a few reports of non operation on some Windows XP systems let alone Vista and Windows 7.
 
The present Windows version works in XP but not Vista and I can't test Windows 7 till next week. It also has a few minor bugs like the date entry window and those mentioned by Bogdan that also occur in Linux.
 
Plugins are another story. No troubles seem to appear with the older plugins, AngleMeasure, Compass marks HellStelmodule, TextUserInterface and TelescopeControl  but the newer ones of  Logbook and Ocular are still being worked on and the Satellite module has the annoying effect in windows of hanging on unload due to the update link not closing correctly. Only crashing Stellarium gets out of the program. This problem does not happen in Linux. 
 
I have not tried to compile the modules as static for some time because of the time taken to re-compile modules to produce the *static.a component on some and needing to recompile the modules with many of the Stellarium changes, but previously if they work as dynamic they have been OK as static.
 
Another point is the size of the package it has now gone from about 40MB to around 60MB and there needs to be some changes (additional dll's) and the line "PrivilegesRequired=none" to the stellarium.iss 


Barry Gerdes
Beaumont Hills Observatory
S 33' 41' 44"    E 150' 56' 32"
 

> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:33:11 +0200
> From: dag...@gm...
> To: ste...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Stellarium-devel] release date
> 
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Matthew Gates <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> > OK, so the FLOSS weekly interview will now be Feb 3 2010.  Lets target
> > the release for the week before then.  It'll be nice to use it to
> > publicise the release.
> >
> > For me one of the main priorities is to fix the star catalogue
> > downloader.  It's very buggy.
> 
> It would be very nice to release a really stable version before the
> Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx package freeze. This is a Long-Term Support
> release, so people who use it will be using this version of Stellarium
> for two years. This can be either 0.10.3, or 0.10.4, if there are any
> obvious bugs in 0.10.3. ;)
> 
> Some suggestions:
> - add Neptune's moons. They are included in the Nightshade fork, and I
> guess that orbital calculation is one of the few parts that are not
> substantially different from the current Stellarium version.
> - add the other 3 dwarf planets (we already have two);
> - add a few of the comets that will be visible in 2010 instead of
> Comet McNaught.
> 
> Not counting the current problems with building/dialogs/OpenGL, there
> are also a number of minor-but-annoying bugs* and unfinished
> features**.
> 
> (* For example, the missing country names in the Location dialog, but
> I'm going to write a separate e-mail about that.)
> 
> (** For example, the ecliptic coordinates grid that is implemented,
> but still has no keyboard shortcut or a GUI control.)
> 
> Regards,
> Bogdan Marinov
> 
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