[AD] Allegro 3.9.32

[Shawn Hargreaves <shawn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

... is on http://www.sunsite.auc.dk/allegro/wip.html. I sort of lied when 
I said I'd get it done this weekend, since it is now Monday, but I 
haven't been to sleep yet so I think this still counts :-)


Note to people who are reading this on the main Allegro list: if you are 
going to use the latest WIP versions, it is probably a good idea to also 
subscribe to the developers list (conductors@xxxxxxxxxx). That 
usually has very low traffic, but being subscribed there means you will 
get to see any nice bugfixes or other patches that come floating by, so 
you can apply them yourself if you particularly need those problems 
fixed, rather than having to wait for me to do it in the next WIP.



Changes since 3.9.31:

   S.Sakamaki added a function for controlling the refresh rate when 
   using the DOS VESA 3.0 driver (this could also be supported by some 
   other drivers if anyone wants to implement that).

   S.Suzuki added DOS drivers for the IF-SEGA /PCI, /PCI2, and /ISA 
   joystick interface cards.

   Fabrizio Gennari added DOS drivers for multisystem joysticks with 
   9-pin connectors (Atari, Commodore 64, MSX).

   Peter Pavlovic improved the support for accented character maps in the 
   keyboard driver.

   Sven Sandberg optimised the GUI listbox scrolling to skip redraws if 
   it can't keep up with the update speed.

   Olly Betts did some work to make cross-compiling the djgpp version 
   work on Linux.

   Isaac Cruz improved the windowed mode ddraw driver, adding support for 
   many different color depth conversions.

   Vincent Penquerc'h added an update selection function to the grabber.

   Many bugfixes from various people.

   zipup.sh now generates dependencies entirely using standard Unix tools 
   and gcc, so it can setup all the supported platforms without needing 
   those compilers to be available (ie. I can create Watcom, BeOS, and 
   Mingw32 dependencies all from my Linux machine). This does require a 
   bit of cooperation from the different targets, though: they have to 
   set up their "make depend" target to override the standard gcc 
   defines, and wrap any non-standard header includes with "#ifndef 
   SCAN_DEPEND".

   Fixed (I hope :-) bug with non-GMT timezones in the datafile update 
   code.

   Rewrote the Unicode usprintf() to piggyback on libc when converting 
   floating point data (too hard to get this right ourselves :-)



What comes next:

   I'm going to be continuing my state of being around but busy: it is my 
   last day at Probe tommorrow, then I have a fortnight to get moved into 
   a new flat, before starting work at Climax Software's new Brighton 
   studio on the 27th. So if nobody else wants to do this I can still 
   keep getting WIP's out every now and then, but if anyone else happens 
   to have more free time than you know what to do with, you could 
   probably get this done more punctually than I will be able to. This is 
   entirely up to you lot: if anyone wants to take over, or maybe set up 
   a CVS system so that several people can contribute, I'll do everything 
   I can to help get that going, but you need to take the initiative in 
   saying what you want to happen. Otherwise it will go on defaulting to 
   me getting things done whenever I have time for them.

   There's plenty of awkward stuff listed in the todo file, unfortunately 
   mostly to do with Windows at the moment :-)

   On the plus side, my new zipup.sh can build a full distro anywhere 
   that has bash, sed, and gcc: it works for me in Linux, but should also 
   be ok using the djgpp tools or on BeOS. All it takes to package up the 
   next version is now:

      misc/fixver.sh 3 9 33 WIP
      misc/zipup.sh all3933.zip ~/backup/all3932.zip
      cd ..
      allegro/misc/mkunixdists.sh all3932.zip

   This will leave you with a set of .zip, .tar.gz, and .rpm files ready 
   to be uploaded. And the new system actually makes a better archive 
   than before: I didn't use to be able to include BeOS or Mingw32 
   dependencies, but can create those now even without having the 
   compilers installed.



Random comment:

   NiN 'The Fragile' is a great album, especially when played very loud 
   through headphones somewhere round about this time of day.



-- 
Shawn Hargreaves - shawn@xxxxxxxxxx - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/
"A binary is barely software: it's more like hardware on a floppy disk."