Vivian Meazza > Durk Talsma > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > Well, if some of you might have noticed, the release process is going > > somewhat > > slower than we had all hoped for I would just like to give a quick heads > > up > > though. > > > > First of all, there are two major reasons that are holding us back. 1) > > There > > are still a few bugs to be checked, in addition to investigating the > > possibilities of setting up a proper bug tracking system for FlightGear. > > > > Secondly, and as importantly, there is currently a considerable > > uncertainty > > with regards to the windows build. In the last couple of years, we've > been > > able to distribute a very nice windows build, including a nice installer > > and a > > launcher, provided by Frederic Bouvier. Unfortunately, we've been unable > > to > > get a hold of Fred in recent months. I certainly hope that everything is > > okay > > with him, but in the mean time, we have to consider how to do a windows > > build. > > In particular, it would be very nice to have a similar version as what > we > > had > > before. We have a very large windows users base, so I believe that this > is > > important. > > > > So, I would like to explore some possibilities on how to do this. I have > > succesfully compiled FlightGear on windows in the past, but this was > > nowhere > > as advanced as the setup that Fred was able to provide. I know that a > few > > people have experience in building on windows (Vivian Meazza, Olad > > Flebbe). So > > hopefully we can come up with a good windows equivalent. > > > > I keep a Windows installer and a current binary of cvs-head available > here: > > ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/executable/ > > so providing no one breaks the Windows build before the release, there is > no > problem. > > I would need to update the installer, but that's only a few minutes work. >
And I forgot to mention that the installer lacks any data at present. Once again, only a few minutes work to fix, once I know what should go into it. I think we ought to include some data for our Windows users - otherwise FG won't run right out of the box, and that's probably a bridge too far for many such users. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
