[RkWard-devel] RKWard 0.4.5pre1, 0.4.5 release process

Tue Jan 9 09:28:53 UTC 2007

Hi there!

I updated the greek translation to the new version, which I have attached.

Hope in the future I could help in development. For now I'm learning
programming. I have in my mind writing some plugins but for the moment
don't know how.

2007/1/9, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>:
> Hi!
>
> Since there are only two of us actively committing to SVN at the moment, and
> we both have our feature changes in, I rushed the feature freeze, and started
> the release process for 0.4.5. More on the details of that below.
>
> First, however, I'd like to announce a preview release of 0.4.5:
> http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.4.5pre1.tar.gz
>
> Major changes in this release include:
> - many new plugins
> - rework of the code generated by most plugins
> - added help system (with only some few pages, so far)
> - several small fixes and improvements as seen in the ChangeLog at the end of
> this mail.
>
> One change in particular I'd like to get your feedback on (if you don't like
> it, it's not too late to remove it from the release, yet):
> The "Edit", "View", and "Run" menus, as well as the "Run" toolbar are now
> always shown, regardless of which part/window is currently active.
> The "Output" menu was removed entirely ("Flush Output" was moved to Edit,
> and "Refresh Output" was move to View).
> The idea behind these changes is, that now the menus will no longer "jump
> around" whenever you switch, e.g. between a help window and an editor window.
> The contents of the menus will still change, but the position remains fixed.
> Does this seem like a good idea, or do you think it causes more harm than
> good?
>
> Of course besides this, please do some testing on the preview release, so we
> can fix the most serious bugs before the official release.
>
> ----------
>
> The following section is of interest mostly to people with SVN write access.
> Feel free to skip over:
>
> RKWard SVN is now split into the regular development branch, and a release
> branch. This allows us to continue doing all sorts of changes on the
> development branch, while only bug-fixes, translation and documentation
> updates go to the release branch.
> To work on the development branch, or follow it, proceed as usual. To work on
> the release branch, you will have to do an additional checkout to a separate
> directory:
>
> svn co
> https://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rkward/branches/release_branch_0.4.5
>
> and the usual
> make -f Makefile.svn
> ./configure
>
> Many changes you make to one branch will also be of interest to the other,
> requiring two separate commits. If in doubt, continue working on the
> development branch only, and notify me about which changes are relevant for
> the release branch.
> Or you may decide to do all your work on the release branch (minding the
> feature freeze), and I'll take care of applying relevant patches to the
> development branch.
>
> -------------
>
> Release schedule:
> If nothing grave turns up during testing, I intend to prepare an official
> release around the 21st of January. The date may vary depending on the time I
> have available and assorted other factors.
>
> Translations:
> Now is a good time to update your translations! The most recent .po and .pot
> files can be downloaded here:
> http://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkward/branches/release_branch_0.4.5/rkward/po/
> Or take them from the po subdirectory of the 0.4.5pre1 release.
> This time around we will avoid any source string changes between now and the
> release as much as reasonably possible (i.e. strings may only be changed for
> important bugs), so you have stable base to work on.
>
> Please send in your translations (or commit them to SVN, if you have access)
> no later than January 20.
>
> Also, please make sure to coordinate your translation efforts either on this
> list, or at least with any people mentioned as previous translators for your
> language, so you won't duplicate each other's efforts.
>
> Documentation:
> The release branch is open for documentation updates (as those are not
> currently translatable anyway), and now that there is a help system, there is
> a lot of documentation to be written. If you can find some time, your
> contribution would be highly welcome!
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> ------------------
> ChangeLog for 0.4.5pre1:
>
> - new Console RMB actions: "copy selection cleaned" and "run selection"
> - added a basic help system, and some introductory help pages
> - plug-in for skewness and kurtosis added
> - plug-ins for distribution analysis added
> - plug-ins for new plots (stripchart & density plot)
> - enhancements to existing plot plug-ins
> - removed the "output" menu; entries were moved to "Edit" and "View"
> - always show all top level menus
> - code generated for most plugins cleaned and simplified
> - new function rk.results () for use in plugins
> - fix: the output window would not refresh changed plot images (unless closed
> and reopened)
> - fix several minor issues as identified by the "krazy" source code checker
> - allow varslots to request objects of specified dimensionality and length
> - fixed: integer spinboxes with starting values greater than 1 would get
> unreasonable change steps
> - fix compilation with some versions of KDE / GCC
> - small improvements to syntax highlighting definition
> - in console, make cursor go to empty next line after pressing enter, before
> there is output (more like in the real console)
> - add "run selection" option to command log
> - script editor commands are piped through the console (by default; this is
> configurable)
> - assorted cleanups
>
>
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