[Flightgear-devel] 0.7.7 release schedule

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@me...>]

This week we are finalizing any packaging issues for the 0.7.7
release.  Pretty much any bugs or feature issues are now sidelined
until after 0.7.7 is finalized and released.

I appreciate everyone's efforts to follow our release schedule and
stamp out the show stopping bugs.

Here is my first stab at a final release of 0.7.7.  Hopefully as many
people as possible can download both the source and the prebuilt
windows binaries, test them on relatively pristine systems, and let me
know if any problems or issues show up so we can have all the
packaging problems resolved by the end of the week for an official
release.

Hopefully someone out there (Gene B?) will volunteer to wrap
everything together in a self installer for windows people.  If
other's want to generate .deb's or .rpm's, or Mac sits or whatever,
now is a pretty good time to start dusting off your scripts.  I don't
anticipate much changing between now and the official/final release.

The goal here is for people trying out FlightGear for the first time
to have the best chance possible at getting something running.  These
are the sorts of problems (i.e. a startup segfault on everyone's
system but my own, or a compile error, etc.) that I am interested in
fixing this week.  Everything else will have to wait for 0.7.8.


Source Release Candidate
========================

ftp://simgear.sf.net/pub/simgear/Devel/Snapshots/SimGear-0.0.15.tar.gz
ftp://flightgear.sf.net/pub/flightgear/Devel/Snapshots/FlightGear-0.7.7.tar.gz
ftp://flightgear.sf.net/pub/flightgear/Devel/fgfs-base-0.7.7.tar.gz    


Windows Binary Release Candidate (Note: this is not the final packaging)
========================================================================

ftp://flightgear.sf.net/pub/flightgear/Devel/fgfs-win32-bin-0.7.7.zip
ftp://flightgear.sf.net/pub/flightgear/Devel/fgfs-manual-0.7.7.zip
ftp://flightgear.sf.net/pub/flightgear/Devel/fgfs-base-0.7.7.tar.gz


Let me know how it goes.  The more people that can try these out, the
better chance we have at putting out a stable release, which is much
of what we will be judged on.

Thanks,

curt.
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Curtis Olson   Human Factors Research Lab       FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    cu...@hf...                cu...@fl...
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