Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath 1.9.0 released

[sasayins <sas...@gm...>]

Hi David,

Congrats for the release. Its very nice to see some updates.


Regards.



On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:23 AM, David Bruce <dav...@gm...>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just posted a source tarball and win32 build for tuxmath-1.9.0.
> This is the first release in a while, and the first windows build in a
> long while.
>
> Highlights:
> - LAN multiplayer mode - it generally works, but still has a few
> issues.  We still need to provide a "chooser" screen if more than one
> server thread is detected on the local network.  For now, the player
> just gets a message saying to stop all but one of the servers.  We
> also need a "stop server" option, as currently the only way to do it
> is to exit tuxmath entirely.  On the client side, it is still possible
> for the comets on different player's screens to lose synchronization.
> The logic handling new comets and waves in the LAN game is pretty
> complicated - I think we need to redo this so the server dictates
> these things more directly, instead of following the pattern of the
> single player game.
> - Increased use of SVG
> - Mandatory use of t4k_common.
> - mingw-cross-env used to create windows crossbuild.  The crossbuilds
> are now completely "cookbook", obviating the need to set up a
> complicated crossbuild (or native win32) environment by hand.
>
> I've upgraded my wife's iMac to Snow Leopard, so I'm going to take
> another stab at updating MacPorts and hopefully building a dmg
> installer.  I don't think I will be able to build for ppc anymore,
> however.
>
> Best,
>
> David Bruce
>
>
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