Re: [Shapefusion-devel] 0.5 plans

[Gregory S. <wo...@tr...>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Tito Dal Canton wrote:

> Well, you could checkout 0.4 and build a win executable out of it. Then
> we could add it to the download page so that pleople can find bugs, and
> we can schedule their fixes for 0.5. However, 0.4 is affected by that
> shapes bug under windows, so nobody will find it much useful.

Agreed.

> Alternatively we may freeze 0.5 as is, and release it together with its
> win executable.

This sounds useful.

> Also, support for patches is welcome if you want to implement it, but
> I'd like to talk a bit about how that's going to be implemented.

I wouldn't do this for 0.5, so I'll post about it separately.

> Unfortunately, at the moment I'm totally busy on the physics side
> (thesis, one last exam, articles...) and it's higly unlikely that I will
> do anything heavy for shapefusion until summer. But I can handle a 0.5
> release now.

OK. Let me have a look at BMP writing in Windows. Also, can we update the 
Makefile to build a .exe? There are two ways to do it:

1) add a new target to the main Makefile, so that typing cross-make.sh 
ShapeFusion.exe will result in that being built

2) add a new Makefile.win32, and then the command is cross-make.sh -f 
Makefile.win32

Do you have a preference? The first requires less maintenance, but the 
second might be cleaner.

> A bit of work on it is needed to generalize the item name file to 
> non-linux platforms, though.

Are you still going with the idea of installing a defaults file somewhere 
global to all users, and allowing user overrides from their own homes? I 
can take a look at this if it helps.

In Mac OS X that would be, I guess:
/Library/Application Support/ShapeFusion/ and ~/Library/Application 
Support/ShapeFusion

and, in Windows:
C:\Windows\Application Data\ShapeFusion and C:\Documents and 
Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\ShapeFusion

But without an installer I don't know how the files will get there. It's 
also going to be a little tedious if a user wants to switch between 
editing shapes for two different scenarios.

Gregory