Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Impending Tux Math 2.0.0 release

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,

> I think t4k_common-0.1.1 is ready for release, and tuxmath 2.0.0 (as I
> finally decided to number it) is very close. The "new-art" images look
> great, and the first set has been merged into master.  The windows
> crossbuild builds correctly and AFAICT works fine, including network
> play.

After some more testing with the windows build, it appears it really
isn't ready for general consumption, although the Linux build seems
ready.

I'm seeing two main problems with the windows build:
1.  In LAN play, there are too many dropped questions, i.e. when the
server sends a question, but for some reason it doesn't appear on the
client's screen.  This leads to a sort of deadlock where the client is
waiting for another question, and the server is waiting for an answer.
 This used to happen all the time when we were first getting the LAN
game implemented.  I thought I had eliminated this problem, and
haven't seen it recently in Linux, but there must still be some sort
of race condition allowing this to occur.
2. When using mouse control for the new Factoroids, the "game" ends
unexpectedly after a few seconds, taking the player to the high score
name entry.  So something is causing the main game loop to exit,
probably some error condition related to the mouse.  Also, the mouse
sensitivity seems insanely high in the windows build.

So, I think I'll make a source-only 2.0.0 release, and hold off on a
win32 binary until 2.0.1 (i.e. when we get the above problems fixed).

Also, if I have a 2.0.0 source release posted, I can start working on
updating tuxmath in MacPorts.

Also, I'm trying to get t4k_common included upstream in
mingw-cross-env, so that those who want prepare a crossbuild setup
just have to install mingw-cross-env and type "make t4k_common".  Once
that is done, go to tuxmath's buildw32/ directory and run
"./tmwin.sh".  I want to make it really easy for members of our team
to create win32 packages for testing.

Best,

David