Re: [AD] 5.0.0 final release plan

[Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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Matthew Leverton