Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

[Michał Cichoń <michcic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I'm late. Good to know it works.

On 30 December 2010 11:17, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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