Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath progress - svn revision 9

[Andrew Z. <an...@sp...>]

David Bruce wrote:
> Dear Tuxmath colleagues,
>
> I have just committed revision 9 to the svn repository. Highlights include:
>
> 1. Better support for playing through a defined list of questions - the player 
> wins if the list is finished with at least one surviving city, with a 
> simple "victory" screen showing Tux dancing.  If all cities get blown up, the 
> old "Game Over" graphic appears.  In this mode, there is now a counter at the 
> top of the screen showing the number of remaining questions, and the LED 
> numbers display in a "flat panel monitor" on top of Tux's console.  This mode 
> is selectable with the "--norepeats" command line argument.
>
> 2.  Support for questions in the forms num1 + ? = num3 and ? + num2 = num3.  
> These are off by default but can be selected with the command line arguments
> "--answersfirst" and "--answersmiddle", respectively.
>
> Everything seems to work correctly by my own testing.  I would like to get 
> this revision into Debian unstable, if possible, so perhaps some more kids 
> and parents can test it.
>   
Some things I noticed while packaging an .rpm:
* The SVN URL was hard to find because Tuxmath has so many web sites on 
Google.
* RPM (at least Fedora's) doesn't like it when you strip the binaries 
because RPM itself separates the debuginfo into its own .rpm package.
* Using "chown root" causes permissions errors while packaging.  By 
default, RPM assumes all files belong to root.
* You probably don't want .xvpics in SVN.
* rpmlint found non standard permissions /usr/share/tuxmath 0751.  It's 
executable but not readable by others.

Also, it would be nice (for testing, for example) to be able to do 
"make; ./tuxmath" without doing an install, but tuxmath uses absolute 
pathnames.

For other people to test, here's RPMs for Fedora Core 5, and the source 
RPM should rebuild on a variety of RPM systems.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-0.9.svn.9-1fc5.i386.rpm
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-0.9.svn.9-1fc5.src.rpm
http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-debuginfo-0.9.svn.9-1fc5.i386.rpm

Andrew