Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.7 release schedule

[Christian M. <ma...@Ch...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Trying the precompiled biaries I get the following problem:

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K:\Projekte\FlightGear\bin>set
[...]
FG_ROOT=Z:\FGFS\FlightGear
[...]

K:\Projekte\FlightGear\bin>fgfs
Rate = 8000  Bps = 8  Stereo = 0
Reading properties from Z/\FGFS\FlightGear/preferences.xml
Error reading property list from file Z/\FGFS\FlightGear/preferences.xml
WARNING: fntLoadTXF: Failed to open
'Z/\FGFS\FlightGear/Fonts/typewriter.txf' for reading.
NewAirportInit
Initializing Time
Current greenwich mean time = Tue Jun 19 12:05:56 2001

Current local time          = Tue Jun 19 12:05:56 2001

Reading timezone info from: Z/\FGFS\FlightGear/Timezone/zone.tab
Unable to open file Z/\FGFS\FlightGear/Timezone/zone.tab
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So there is a path handling error, that treats a ':' as a '/'.

Dunno if that changed lately, but I'll try a new MSVC version soon.

CU,
Christian

PS: note: my FG_ROOT gets set at the Windos (w2k) startup.

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