Nick Hebner wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to help beta test this release. I know of a few areas that need > testing, but have you put together a full change log together for this > release? It would help with focusing testing.
Thanks! A change log is coming in a separate mail, along with a second prerelease tonight. > Also, I have seen in the SVN notes that libavg now compiles in windows. Do > you know of any instructions for setting this up? Ok, this is a bit complicated, and I've got to put on my 'I get paid for this' hat to explain... We've got a windows build set up at Archimedes where I work, but I'm afraid it's not open source. There are several reasons for this. First, internally maintaining a build that compiles on a few machines is a lot less work than distributing one that works for anyone that has a windows computer. Then, my experiences with maintaining paintlib suggest that support work for windows users is harder than support work for other OSes. Last, Archimedes, who are sponsoring much of libavg development, are being pretty bold in just giving away all this work essentially for free. The hope is that the benefits of open source - mainly having a community that supports the software - outweigh the risks. The main risk is that we might help a direct competitor, and we're trying to minimize that by not releasing a version for an OS that most companies would deploy on. So, cutting a long story short: There is a windows version but it's currently not open source. It's not in a state that we would release it in, and we probably wouldn't want to release it if it were. I hope you can live with that (and on the other hand: we can't prevent anyone from releasing a separate windows build, so feel free :-) ). Cheers, Uli > Thanks, > > Nick > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Ulrich von Zadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to release Ver. 0.8.0 of libavg soon, preferrably the coming >> weekend. If anyone has bugreports or code they'd like to contribute, now >> is the time to send them in. >> >> There are prerelease files available at >> >> http://www.libavg.de/libavg-0.8.0.pre1.tar.gz >> http://www.libavg.de/libavg-0.8.0.pre1.zip >> >> that can be installed using ./configure && make && sudo make install. It >> would be great if some people could beta-test them. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Ulrich von Zadow | +49-172-7872715 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: uzadow _______________________________________________ libavg-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.datenhain.de/mailman/listinfo/libavg-users
