On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Tim Vandermeersch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Please find Avogadro 1.0.2_rc2 source tarballs on Sourceforge,
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/avogadro-beta/1.0.2_rc2/
>>>>
>>>> These address quite a few issues raised after the last rc, and have
>>>> all but one patch from Gerrit merged (that one is deferred for a
>>>> possible 1.0.3). If there are no major regressions, I would like to
>>>> tag this as 1.0.2 and create new binaries.
>>>>
>>> For the brave WIndows users out there I have just uploaded a Windows
>>> installer too. It works in a bare Windows 7 x64 Ultimate VM for me. I
>>> would appreciate feedback on it. It currently uses Open Babel trunk,
>>> which I will need to fix (my current build process depends on a few
>>> patches in trunk for Open Babel's build on Windows).
>>>
>>> It would be great to hear from some of the users who were hitting
>>> issues on newer versions of Windows (along with users of XP etc).
>>>
>> I guess we don't have too many Windows XP users left? I tried it in a
>> new Windows XP virtual machine and had issues. It turns out an update
>> overwrote my manifest file I had fixed... I just uploaded a new binary
>> (_a) for Windows with a fixed manifest.
>>
>> Unless I hear anything I intend to tag and release 1.0.2 on Friday.
>> Lots of people are downloading the Windows binaries, and the version
>> of Qt they ship with probably doesn't even fully support newer
>> versions of Windows.
>>
>> Feedback appreciated.
>
> I've tried your rc2 installer on windows 7 and it worked here. I'm
> also updating my build environment so I can make a python installer.
>
That sounds great, I would love to add support for superbuilds of all
of the Python dependencies at some point. Remember to change the
.manifest file version when making packages, that got me and only
failed on my clean Windows XP virtual machine. Once you have something
I can test it for you in my VM.

Marcus

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