Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-12-29, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 31st of December is the day.  Please let me know if there is anything
> > missing on the 5.0 branch, or if there are any showstoppers.
> >
> Mac OS X 10.4 and/or PPC is still messed up. Some things:
> 
> * Missing AudioQueue symbols are present. Evert submitted a workaround
> patch to SF. I submitted a "proper" fix that adjusts the CMake build
> files, but I cannot test it on OS X 10.5

I have remote access to a 10.5 machine.  The patches worked so you can
commit them.

> 
> * Native image loader doesn't work. Not sure if this is a 10.4 or PPC
> thing. Allegro's built-in loaders work (with my updates to TGA). If
> someone with 10.4 intel could test, then we'd at least know what the
> problem is, and document it accordingly.
> 
> * A lot of the video tests fail in the tests directory. I didn't look
> into it, nor will I, but the demos and examples seemed to work, so it
> could have just been a problem (endian related?) with the test utility
> itself.

Oh well.

> 
> Another thing, probably affecting every build, is that I think if you
> disable audio altogether, -DWANT_AUDIO=off (or whatever), it still
> tries to build the demo (and maybe example) programs that rely on the
> audio libraries, which obviously doesn't work.

Fixed.

> On Windows/Linux, I haven't noticed any major bugs lately. It seems to
> be stable enough for a final release. I think having good
> build/install documentation is more critical to a good launch than
> fixing any minor glitches. I wouldn't announce it until the Windows
> binaries have been built and uploaded.
> 
> I would probably even add a note on the download page that 5.0 is not
> backward compatible with 4.0.

Peter