Hi Bill, good to see you in this group. Many people here use Nodal Ninja products. I hope you will keep us posted about your new products here in the future.
On Jun 4, 8:22 pm, Nodal Ninja <[email protected]> wrote: > As many of you know it was our pleasure to support the last two Google > Summer of Code events. Thank you very much - you've always had an open ear when I approached you for support. Very much appreciated. > We were given a Special Edition package for > distribution to those purchasing our product. I remember. I created that package about three years ago. > It was actually very > cool - had our logo and said "Special Edition - for distribution with > a Nodal Ninja only. customizing the logo is quite easy with any image editor. I don't recall exactly which image I customized - the Windows installer images and other files are in the source tree in /platforms/windows/installer and the application's splash screen image is in /src/hugin1/hugin/xrc/ data Just edit the image before running the installer compilation and it will work. the "Special Edition" text is also easy to add, both in the installer and in the application. I don't remember where I added it, but just running the old installer and looking at the old app should give a hint. > The old package (v 0.7.0.3242SVN-Yuv) no > longer installs because it's out of date. that's indeed a very old installer and it is better not to distribute it, but it should install without problems? As fas as I can recall, the specifics of that package were: 1. no control point detectors (because all CP detectors available back then were tainted by U.S. patent and you're U.S. based) 2. at that time there was a lot of instability in upstream dependencies, particularly Enblend and libpano. I recall building very specific versions of them, with patches that have since been applied, and testing them thoroughly for functionality and stability. the "Special Edition" notice is a nice way to brandmark those two things. The stability of the sources of both Enblend and libpano have improved in the meantime. And Hugin has made leap advancement since 0.7.0. We still don't have a patent-free control point detector, but work is in progress on that. In the meantime, in /platforms/windows/installer there is also the source to make an installer without autopano, derived from my original installer. I think the last person who improved it was Allard. As a U.S. based distributor you don't want to touch autopano. > Can anyone help in developing a new install package for us? Unfortunately I can't help you this time: I've been without a usable Windows box for about a year now and a Windows box is required to build that package. There is a user-contributed 2009.4.0 build for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2009.4/Hugin_2009-4-0_win32_setup.exe/download According to the release notes, it has no control point generator and could be OK for you to distribute. It will lack the cool-factor, and you will have to do some quality testing on it before including it in your CD - all things I did for you back then. Any user with a Windows box can do this. There has not been a user-contributed 2010.0.0 build for Windows so far. Theoretically any user a Windows box could follow the instructions in the panotools wiki at http://wiki.panotools.org/Build_Hugin_for_Windows_with_SDK but the instructions and the SDK are outdated. There have been repeated attempts at updating this, but so far they have all stucked at the discussion stage. Also, while following blindly instruction may yield an executable, this does not guarantee the quality of the resulting executable. It is preferable if an experienced and knowledgeable Windows user does this step. Unfortunately that user either does not exist or does not want to share his work. Good luck Yuv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
