Seeing as we're fairly close to being able to make builds for all platforms again, are there any blockers in trunk against releasing a beta as soon as possible? I think the skins are in OK shape, effects work well, etc etc. There's always stuff I'd like to include to make it better, but I can't think of anything that's inexcusable based on our goals for this release.
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 11:49 -0400, RJ Ryan wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus > <spappala...@mixxx.org> wrote: > Hello, RJ. > > That's excellent news all around! Given that, what do you > suppose the prospects are of doing a release as far before 5 > November as possible? (5 October would be ideal.) > > > > Given that we need to do an extensive beta (potentially multiple betas > given how much stuff we're adding) I think it's premature to shoot for > this deadline. > > On 09/09/2014 08:27 AM, RJ Ryan wrote: > The exciting thing about Windows right now is that I > have versioned and > scripted the entire build environment > > With one command you can generate a (x86|x64) > (release|debug) build > environment. > > That _is_ exciting. I assume this covers dependencies as well? > If so, this would finally allow the uninitiated to build Mixxx > from nothing on Windows. Please update the Wiki when you can. > > > Yep, this is every single dependency (and the depedencies' > dependencies -- e.g. zlib, fftw3, etc.). I _think_ it should work on a > fresh Win7 machine with platform SDK, MSVS 2013 Express and the > DirectX SDK installed. > > > Currently everything builds as a DLL but we can switch back to static > linking if need be. If/when we do that we could either add a new > target to every solution or just change it in bulk -- the nice thing > will be that it'll all be version-controlled so we can see what has > been done. > > > > > Sincerely, > Sean M. Pappalardo > "D.J. Pegasus" > Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce. > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
