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Superb... Thanks for the update Stefan... and much more importantly<br>
thanks for all the work on this project...<br>
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Eagerly awaiting 3.4.3 and 3.5...<br>
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Stephen<br>
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--<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Teleman</b> <<a href="mailto:steleman@nyc.rr.com">steleman@nyc.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 16:09, Stephen Fitch wrote:<br>> Better still when will 3.5 for Solaris (10 - please) be available...<br>><br>> Thanks.<br>><br>> Stephen<br>><br>> On 12/7/05, Georg Vogel <
<a href="mailto:georg.vogel@gmail.com">georg.vogel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > hi,,<br>> ><br>> > when will kde-3.4.3 for solaris be released?<br><br>i am now doing the final build for 3.4.3. this means that at the end of next
<br>week i will have all the packages available, after a final thorough testing<br>on both platforms.<br><br>i apologize for having taken such a long with this release -- but i really<br>wanted to provide new functionality which was not available before, and i
<br>also polished a lot of little bugs or features which were incomplete until<br>now. tracking down these little details and coming up with a fix can<br>sometimes be very time consuming. in addition to working Xine/Kaffeine
<br>(including OSD menus, subtitles and everything you would expect from a DVD<br>player), a working build of K3B will also be included with 3.4.3. getting<br>Xine and K3B working took a very long time and it involved rewriting quite a
<br>lot of very cryptic code (liba52dec, ffmpeg/avcodec and some of the thread<br>concurrency scheduling in Xine and libdvd*'s, as well as the entire SCSI<br>subsystem interface in K3B). in spite of being an industry standard, the
<br>Linux SCSI API is completely incompatible with the Solaris SCSI API. and the<br>SCSI API for DVD drives/burners is very tricky.<br><br>after next week i will start work on 3.5. i have seen there are a lot of<br>changes in the
3.5 code, so it will probably take me a month to get 3.5 fully<br>working cleanly. fortunately, i will not have to re-release the big<br>KDErequired package for 3.5, i will reuse the one from 3.4.3 which is in<br>pretty good shape right now.
<br><br>i realize that it's taken me very long to release 3.4.3, but i thought it<br>would be better to build a release with significant improvements and fixes,<br>rather than keep releasing the same things over and over again ...
<br><br>thank you very much for your patience.<br><br>--Stefan<br><br>--<br>Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'<br><a href="mailto:steleman@nyc.rr.com">steleman@nyc.rr.com</a> -Monty
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