tuxmath-devel

[Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath progress - svn revision 9

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

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.


Best wishes,
-- 
David Bruce

p.s. Holger, is there anything else I need to do to "release" any of these 
revisions to the public?  Am I supposed to be putting binaries in the svn 
repository as well as my updated source?  On a related note, I have had 
several local parents ask about a version for (gulp) Windows, so I am 
starting to look into learning to do a Windows build.

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

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:41:16PM -0400, David Bruce wrote:
> Dear Tuxmath colleagues,
> 
> I have just committed revision 9 to the svn repository. Highlights include:

David, you rock!  Thanks so much for taking the reigns and adding some
much-needed improvement to my little game! :^)


-- 
-bill!
bi...@ne...
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/

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

[Holger L. <de...@la...>]

Hi David,

On Monday 12 June 2006 22:41, you wrote:
> I have just committed revision 9 to the svn repository. Highlights includ=
e:

Cool!

> 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 u=
p,
> 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 t=
he
> LED numbers display in a "flat panel monitor" on top of Tux's console.=20
> This mode is selectable with the "--norepeats" command line argument.

I saw the README was last updated in may, is that new option reflected ther=
e?
(BTW, you might also want to take a look at the TODO file.)

> 2.  Support for questions in the forms num1 + ? =3D num3 and ? + num2 =3D=
 num3.
> These are off by default but can be selected with the command line
> arguments "--answersfirst" and "--answersmiddle", respectively.

ditto..

> 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.

Ack, and I will do so soonish, hopefully this weekend, (I'm very busy atm,=
=20
sorry). I also definitly want a better version in etch (the next debian=20
version which is supposed to be released in December 2oo6), so we need to=20
have it in unstable long before that, so it gets proper testing.

> p.s. Holger, is there anything else I need to do to "release" any of thes=
e=20
> revisions to the public?=20

No strictly a need, but a very nice to have: give tuxmath a version number!=
 :)
So far, it has only been released with a date-revision like "2001.09.07" or=
=20
"0.0.20050316". I'm not sure if "1.0" is yet appropriate (but you decide),=
=20
but something like "1.0" or "0.9" or $whatever would surely be very nice.

Having the version number somewhere in the source (setup.h?) is sufficient,=
=20
having the svn version in the README is fine, though having it there as wel=
l=20
is also nice. Your choice.

Also, you could have a look at http://tuxmath.sourceforge.net/ and try to=20
change that or point to a better page.

> Am I supposed to be putting binaries in the svn =20
> repository as well as my updated source?=20

No, thats not neccessary. (And not useful.)


regards & kudos & thanks for your work,
	Holger

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

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

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Dear Andrew,

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:25, Andrew Ziem wrote:

> 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.

I take it you are referring to the "make install" part of the makefile.  I 
haven't touched this since I started maintaining tuxmath, and I honestly 
don't (yet) know enough about this to feel comfortable changing it, being a 
self-taught hacker rather than a professional.

> * 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.

At least on my Debian system, the tuxmath binary is a 0755, both the one 
installed by the official Debian packaging system and the one 
under /usr/local installed by "make install".

> 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.

I'll look into this.

> 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.rp
>m
> 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.9-1f
>c5.i386.rpm

I have been thinking of using some of my empty disc space for small installs 
of various distributions and maybe *BSDs for testing purposes.  I've never 
had an rpm-based system.  Sorry that I don't yet know enough to address these 
issues very well, but I'll do my best.

Thanks,
-- 
David Bruce

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

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

David Bruce wrote:
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I take it you are referring to the "make install" part of the makefile.  I 
> haven't touched this since I started maintaining tuxmath, and I honestly 
> don't (yet) know enough about this to feel comfortable changing it, being a 
> self-taught hacker rather than a professional.
>   
Yes, "make install" is what I am referring to.  Typically, open source 
Unix-ish programs use autoconf, but a few use "make install" too.  
Tuxmath's "make install" just needs some clean up.  Maybe these will help:

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Directory-Variables.html#Directory-Variables
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Install-Command-Categories.html#Install-Command-Categories
http://tinyxml.cvs.sourceforge.net/tinyxml/tinyxml/Makefile?revision=1.14&view=markup 
(does not include install, but does show some "make" features)
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cday/cdayc/makefile?rev=1.12&view=auto 
(temporarily down right now)

... or find some other BSD/GPL "make install" program to copy.

>   
>> * 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.
>>     
>
> At least on my Debian system, the tuxmath binary is a 0755, both the one 
> installed by the official Debian packaging system and the one 
> under /usr/local installed by "make install".
>   
The tuxmath binary is OK here too, but what about the directory 
/usr/share/tuxmath (might also be /usr/local/share/tuxmath)?
>> 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.rp
>> m
>> 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.9-1f
>> c5.i386.rpm
>>     
> I have been thinking of using some of my empty disc space for small installs 
> of various distributions and maybe *BSDs for testing purposes.  I've never 
> had an rpm-based system.  Sorry that I don't yet know enough to address these 
> issues very well, but I'll do my best.
>   
Maybe you can get the community to do the testing for you or try 
VMPlayer.  (You can try VMPlayer with EasyVMX or 
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html .)


Andrew

[Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath "officially" now version 0.8

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Hi Holger,

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 06:42, Holger Levsen wrote:
> I saw the README was last updated in may, is that new option reflected
> there? (BTW, you might also want to take a look at the TODO file.)

> > 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.

These were in there but I forgot to change the date.  I have just commited svn 
revision 10 which includes this minor update.

> > p.s. Holger, is there anything else I need to do to "release" any of
> > these revisions to the public?
>
> No strictly a need, but a very nice to have: give tuxmath a version number!
> :) So far, it has only been released with a date-revision like "2001.09.07"
> or "0.0.20050316". I'm not sure if "1.0" is yet appropriate (but you
> decide), but something like "1.0" or "0.9" or $whatever would surely be
> very nice.
>
> Having the version number somewhere in the source (setup.h?) is sufficient,
> having the svn version in the README is fine, though having it there as
> well is also nice. Your choice.

I have made the executive decision that we are at version 0.8, and mentioned 
it in README.txt, tuxmath.h, and CHANGES.txt.  I figure we can work on it 
some more so that version 1.0 may coincide with Etch.
>
> Also, you could have a look at http://tuxmath.sourceforge.net/ and try to
> change that or point to a better page.

Yes, that ought to be updated.
>
> regards & kudos & thanks for your work,
> 	Holger

Thanks
-- 
David Bruce

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath "officially" now version 0.8

[Holger L. <de...@la...>]

Hi,

On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:35, you wrote:
> > > 2.  Support for questions in the forms num1 + ? =3D num3 and ? + num2=
 =3D
> > > num3. These are off by default but can be selected with the command
> > > line arguments "--answersfirst" and "--answersmiddle", respectively.
> These were in there but I forgot to change the date.  I have just commited
> svn revision 10 which includes this minor update.

Thanks.

> I have made the executive decision that we are at version 0.8, and
> mentioned it in README.txt, tuxmath.h, and CHANGES.txt.  I figure we can
> work on it some more so that version 1.0 may coincide with Etch.

Yay! I was thinking about removing the quote-signs in the subject when=20
replying :)

I will package and upload it soonish.

> > Also, you could have a look at http://tuxmath.sourceforge.net/ and try =
to
> > change that or point to a better page.
> Yes, that ought to be updated.

Do you have access to it?=20


btw, I just subscribed again to the tuxmath malinglist, somehow I didnt get=
=20
any posts there since march 31st :( (Please still cc: me until this is=20
resolved..)


regards,
	Holger