[GCompris-devel] Preparation of release 0.60

[JAZEIX Johnny]

On 05/16/16 17:54, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> On lundi, 16 mai 2016 14.24:38 h CEST JAZEIX Johnny wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's time for freezing the strings for 0.60, the branch has been created.
>>
>> The new activities are baby_word_processor and tangram (by Bruno
>> Coudoin), explore_monuments (by Ayush Agrawal), graph_coloring (by
>> Akshat Tandon), land_safe (by Holger Kaelberer) and photo_hunter (by
>> Stefan Toncu).
>>
>> Timothée Giet updated images for chess and readingh/readingv activities
>> along with the gcompris logo.
>>
>> Lots of little fixes/improvements have been done (storing and restoring
>> the window's width/height at start-up, docbook updated, levels/images
>> bonus, adding an internal dataset for words games...).
>>
>> There is still one bug for windows: on some versions (vista but not 7)
>> GCompris does not find the opengl dll (which are supposed to be shipped
>> with the executable... maybe we ship a too recent version of d3dcompiler?).
>>
>> Another good news, Bruno found a solution for running GCompris with
>> Qt5.6 without any side effects.
>>
>> The versions can be downloaded at:
>> * android:
>> http://gcompris.net/download/beta/GCompris-Android-debug-armeabi-v7a-dl-0.60.apk
>> * windows: http://gcompris.net/download/beta/gcompris-qt-0.60-win32.exe
>>
>> Feel free to test and report any issues!
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>> On 04/15/16 12:28, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> With Johnny we would like to plan for a 0.60 release in about one month,
>>> let's say 15th of May for a string freeze and the official release
>>> somewhere in June when we are ready.
>>>
>>> If you have some pending activities that are close to be ready for an
>>> integration it is a good time to make a last effort to have them
>>> integrated in master.
>>>
>>> For now, the next release contains a few more activities: tangram,
>>> explore_monuments, graph_coloring.
>>>
>>> Besides this, we have a new option to change the letter spacing and a
>>> changelog windows that pops up after an upgrade. Timothée also updated
>>> the logo and the chess images. We enabled again the particles effects
>>> for all the platforms except Android.
>>>
>>> Translations have been completed for Belarusian and Romanian along with
>>> the datasets.
>>>
>>> This time, my plan is to make it available on Windows. I will continue
>>> to propose the Gtk+ version as a fallback for those who miss some
>>> features but the default download will be the Qt version.
>>>
>>> Also, we will integrate the new Logo and use it in our communication..
>>>
>>> Bruno and Johnny.
>>>
>>> PS: Bugs that would be nice to fix for release:
>>> - tangram, update the code to not have the Colorize having its parent as
>>> source
>>> - change the background color of baby_wordprocessor to see the
>>> GCButtonStyle (we need to check where they are used and if it is still
>>> visible)
>>> - texts are too big in the menu and override their rectangle
>>> - integrate some bonus from gci students?
>>>
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>>
>>
> Would you mind to create a tar.xz release for Linux ?
> I would use 0.60 version update to be ready for mass, and thus push the packaging
> to a boarder audience by trying to have it included first in openSUSE tumbleweed, and also
> hit Leap 42.2 (next november).
>
> a ping back here would be perfect.
>
Hi,

I just put it at http://gcompris.net/download/beta/gcompris-qt-0.60.tar.xz

If the gstreamer version contains the fix for the audio freeze, we can 
also provide a patch to enable again the .wav files on linux.

Johnny