On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 4:40 AM, HB-GRAL <flightg...@sablonier.ch> wrote:
> Hi Curt and mirrors
>
> I can’t download the OSX release from your servers. It’s always broken
> around +- 450 Mb.
What tool (browser, app?) are you using to download flightgear? In the
past we have run into some browsers that simply croaked on larger files.
If this is common to a specific browser or download app it would be good
to make note of that so we can warn people and suggest an alternative. I
know the google chrome and firefox are pretty solid choices for downloading
big files. Sometimes it's just the local internet that's a problem and
isn't stable for long enough stretches to download such big files.
> But anyway, I don’t know if it is worth to care about
> this download, the Mac release seems to be broken at all,
James has pushed through a fix for 10.6.x I believe and we are waiting for
someone to test it and give feedback before pushing it up to the wide world.
> there is a
> problem with subversion linking reported from many users at forums (this
> is the heavy change to be compatible with OSX 10.8, I know, it’s boring
> and I also know James is working very hard on this).
>
I wouldn't call it boring, but not everyone owns a Mac running 10.8 -- I
think that's a pretty small club right now (growing of course, but there
are still some people out there running 10.5, and I have 10.6 on my little
iMac.)
But is it worth just to kick out a release directly with heavy changes
> in distribution, without any testing and candidates before? I will
> really help to test and unfortunately I didn’t find the time the last
> days because of other work. And I’m willing to help users at forums and
> everywhere, but not without having some time for testing and another
> schedule, which is always widely accepted by OSX users btw. (see history
> of 2.0/2.4/2.6 macflightgear releases).
>
It's never fun to run into issues like this the hard way. But we have a
published plan that we were/are operating from. Again, different
developers run different systems so we depend on each other to cover
different areas of expertise. We are continually updating the plan and the
process and fixes for MacOSX that we discover in this cycle will hopefully
feed into the next cycle so that each time is a little smoother than
before. One issue this time around was that Tat was out of town for most
of the critical weeks leading up to the release so James jumped in to try
to get the release package working and spent a huge amount of time trying
to add support for 10.8. Not only is our own code evolving and improving,
but the systems we support can also be a rapidly moving target.
So I will personally apologize for any issues on the MacOSX front this time
around, clearly we hit a couple glitches, but everyone is working hard and
we will get this all sorted out soon I think -- and sorted out in a way
that will make future releases and future release candidates much easier to
deal with.
Thanks,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson:
http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/
http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org
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