Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Happy new year! New release to come

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

Hi Tim

 

I think I tried everything except tabbing to change the fields. I got some partial changes but did not know what I did.

Regarding the Mac build. I have seen no comments on progress from the maintainer for some time so I don't know what the score is.

 

I will install Ubuntu 10.04 when it is in release mode but at the moment it is still beta. I hope that Qt 4.6.0 is part of it. That will solve a lot of problems.


Barry Gerdes
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From: tr...@si...
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:48:07 -0500
To: ste...@li...
Subject: Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Happy new year! New release to come




On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Barry Gerdes wrote:

Hi Tim
 
OK about the Ocular module. On my last check I had some problems editing values so I assumed it was still under review.
 
Regarding the Mac build I would expect that any release would include your Mac package and using Qt 4.6.0 here would be quite in order. Do you have a universal Mac package yet? I have some friends with Mac's that I would love to try Stellarium on.





Please check the editing of values again, but I think they work - other than the focus bug which was introduced recently.  You have to tab through the fields, not click on them.


I do have a Universal build; however, distributing Qt with it is an issue.  Qt is not intended to be run as an embedded framework.  If a user starts Stellarium, and they already have Qt installed, Stellarium will crash.  This can be remedied in a couple of different ways, but the best is to actually write an mpkg that detects it Qt is installed (or asks the user), and only install the frameworks if needed.  As I'm not the maintainer of the Mac version, I'm not sure what will end up - I'd guess nothing.


Having the Mac version use Qt 4.6 and the linux & Windows using 4.5 doesn't sound like a good idea.  Not my call, but, as a software development practice, it'd be heavily frowned upon, unless it were the only option.  I think that a better use of time and resources would be to finish getting the crud out of the build setups, and finishing the changes that Qt 4.6 require.


Also, as I'd image the next Ubuntu release (which is a goal) will use Qt 4.6.  That should be verified though.



 		 	   		  
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