On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Ulrich von Zadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Great, I will wait for that. > > > > 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 :-) ). Fair enough. I just tried to get something working in cygwin, but was not able to get it to work. I have not really tried all that hard yet, but I might in the future. > > > 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 >
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