Durk Talsma > Hi Folks, > > Well, if some of you might have noticed, the release process is going > somewhat > slower than we had all hoped for I would just like to give a quick heads > up > though. > > First of all, there are two major reasons that are holding us back. 1) > There > are still a few bugs to be checked, in addition to investigating the > possibilities of setting up a proper bug tracking system for FlightGear. > > Secondly, and as importantly, there is currently a considerable > uncertainty > with regards to the windows build. In the last couple of years, we've been > able to distribute a very nice windows build, including a nice installer > and a > launcher, provided by Frederic Bouvier. Unfortunately, we've been unable > to > get a hold of Fred in recent months. I certainly hope that everything is > okay > with him, but in the mean time, we have to consider how to do a windows > build. > In particular, it would be very nice to have a similar version as what we > had > before. We have a very large windows users base, so I believe that this is > important. > > So, I would like to explore some possibilities on how to do this. I have > succesfully compiled FlightGear on windows in the past, but this was > nowhere > as advanced as the setup that Fred was able to provide. I know that a few > people have experience in building on windows (Vivian Meazza, Olad > Flebbe). So > hopefully we can come up with a good windows equivalent. >
I keep a Windows installer and a current binary of cvs-head available here: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/executable/ so providing no one breaks the Windows build before the release, there is no problem. I would need to update the installer, but that's only a few minutes work. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
