[GCompris-devel] Preparing release 0.50

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le 22/11/2015 20:46, Bruno Friedmann a écrit :
> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 03.39:21 Bruno Coudoin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Any idea (ETA) when we could see 0.50 released and put at
>>> http://gcompris.net/download/ , some sort an initial .deb package. I
>>> am guessing it would take quite some time.
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is not a good idea to distribute a .deb on gcompris.net. This is not
>> the usual distribution way for debian users.
>>
>> I would prefer to look after other options like a universal installer
>> like Qt is doing for Qt Creator for example.
>>
>>> Also if there is a changelog that I could look at/follow -
>>>
>>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/edu/gcompris/repository/revisions/master/revisions
>>> as Bruno's notes didn't tell where I or other interested folks could
>>> get info.  about  what changes there was in between the last release
>>> and this one . From buno's present 'confession' of the same below -
>>>
>>> "So far we have many fixes and improvements all around in 355 commits and
>>> 10 new activities have been added:
>>>
>>> By Bruno : chess, chess_2players, chess_partyend, melody
>>> By Siddhesh Suthar (part of GSoC): lang
>>> By Pulkit Gupta: paintings
>>> By Johnny Jazeix, readingh, readingv
>>> Sagar Chand Agarwal (part of GSoC): renewable_energy, watercycle " -  Bruno
>>>
>> I don't understand very well what you expect here. A more detailed
>> change log ?
>>
>> Bruno.
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>
> Last randa Meetings I've successfully build an version for openSUSE.
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Education/gcompris-qt
> So people can download and install it easily from
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/[Their_openSUSE_Version]
>
> It was a 0.44 tarball. Is there any new tarball.
Hi,

No there is no new tarball and no new official release. We are in string
freeze at the moment so a new release will be there in the coming weeks.

> It is also very easy to make a package from a git source.
> So would you like that I snapshot actually what's happening in 
> https://github.com/bdoin/GCompris-qt 
I have no idea if we have a public for that.
> Bruno, if you create release on github its even more easier..
> I'm kinda think of release in the kde sense (.70 = alpha, 80 = beta, 90 = rc) 
> so 0.49.90 ? before the real 0.5 ?
I was not aware of this numbering scheme. Can you point me to where this
scheme is documented, can't find it.
>
> Once I've prepared all the stuff, I can give instruction.
> OBS is able to build for numerous plate-forms and make binaries download
> easy also for external website. Perhaps it is a feature gcompris would like
> to use ?
Definitly yes. Everything that can help us distribute better GCompris to
our GNU/Linux users is good.
>
> Sorry to have miss Bazard du Libre, but it was a mess to bring back the money
> and so I've to cancel everything on last monday.
>
> I hope you're enjoy the week-end!
Despite the harsh condition we could meet and got fun, you can see a
short summary of the event in french there:
https://fr.kde.org/

Bruno.