[gcompris-devel] Release 12.11PRE1

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi,

It's time to have a little pre-release to make some better testing.

I uploaded 3 versions:

Source: http://gcompris.net/download/gcompris-12.11PRE1.tar.bz2

MacOSX Snow Leopard and after:
http://gcompris.net/download/gcompris-12.11PRE1_intel.dmg 

Windows XP and after:
http://gcompris.net/download/gcompris-12.11PRE1.exe

All the new activities does not require any activation code. Anyway if
you want a full access, you can use the non persistant code 121212. If
you need a persistant code, just let me know.

Bellow are the release notes. As far as I remember we never made a new
release with so many new activities. Thanks a lot to all of you who made
this possible. Despite my continuous efforts, GCompris would be nothing
without you.

Waiting for your bug report...

Beth Hadley:
      Beth developped 7 new activities during her Google Summer of
      Code 2012:

      - explore_farm_animals: Learn about farm animals, what sounds
        they make, and interesting facts.

      - explore_world_animals: Learn about world animals, interesting
        facts and their location on a map.

      - explore_world_music: Learn about the music of the world.

      - note_names: Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble
        clef, with the help of sounds and colors

      - piano_composition: An activity to learn how the piano keyboard
        works, how notes are written on a musical staff and explore
        music composition by loading and saving your work.

      - play_piano: Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard!

      - play_rhythm: Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms.

Bruno Coudoin:
      geography: removed sublevels, reworked and fixed many maps

      removed the libgnet dependency.

      core, bug fix, in case an actvity is removed from GCompris, the
      wrong activity was removed from the database.
      core, bug fix, broken lang selector for catalan

      python api documentation updated.

      sudoku, level 5 was broken

      chess, on linux we can build the internal gnuchess

      scalesboard, little graphic improvement

      fifteen activity, improved background

      sudoku, graphical improvement with a new background from
      openclipart.

      SDL Audio backend (used on Windows). Added support for the
      play and interrupt mode, sounds will be more responsive now.

Clément Coudoin:
      geography, new asia map level.

Peter Albrecht:
      New activity named mining: Use the mousewheel to approach the
      rockwall an look for gold nuggets.

      Maze activities: added sport shoes to Tux to indicating the
      "run_fast"-mode

Matilda Bernard:
      Matilda developped 5 new activities during her Google Summer of
      Code 2012:

      - color_mix: To understand color mixing.

      - color_mix_light: Understanding mixing of colors of light.

      - intro_gravity: Introduction to the concept of gravity

      - land_safe: Understanding acceleration due to gravity.

      - place_your_satellite: Understanding effect of mass and
        distance on orbital velocity.