Prepping for Beta6.4

skyjake

<i>This post was originally made by <b>skyjake</b> on the dengDevs blog. It was posted under the categories: Beta 6, Practices.</i>

It's that time of the month again, so we should start preparing for the Beta6.4 release. Let's spend the remaining couple of days making sure everything works right?

DaniJ

Agreed.

I've been working on the current issues with DeHackED patch support and should have a patch ready for svn tomorrow (I just need to spend some time putting my changes to the test first).

Other than that there are a few other bugs in the tracker which I think should be looked at for this release:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2807551&group_id=74815&atid=542099
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2799274&group_id=74815&atid=542099
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2646965&group_id=74815&atid=542099
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2800853&group_id=74815&atid=542099

Earlier this week I dropped that ATI videocard I mentioned into my dev system but as yet I've not looked at the middle texture issue. I plan to spend some time on this tomorrow.

skyjake

I could check out the Linux savegames and the mouse strafing. Let's just be careful not to break anything with last minute fixes.

<strong>EDIT:</strong> The Hexen savegame issue and the slow strafing are now fixed.

skyjake

I have an OS X release package for Beta6.4 ready to go. I haven't looked at the last two bugs you listed here, though.

DaniJ

I've not been feeling all that great over the past day or so and haven't gotten around to doing what I had planned.

The patch I mentioned in my previous post is still awaiting testing and I doubt it will reach svn until late this evening at the earliest.

skyjake

Well, we can certainly postpone the release a bit. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

DaniJ

I'm feeling much better today, thanks. Went to see the doctor anyway but we can't get any further until I have a blood test and ECG. He didn't seem to think it was anything serious though.

Just commited to svn rev #6756 which fixes this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2802979&group_id=74815&atid=542099

I'll take a look at the remaining two items I listed above after lunch. As for the "midbars vs ATI" problem I'll have a look at it but unless it is something obvious, is now probably too late to resolve in the 1.9.0-beta4 release.

skyjake

<blockquote>I?m feeling much better today, thanks.</blockquote>Glad to hear it.

As to the ATI issue, if it's something that can be taken care of in a day or two then I'm fine with holding the release until then. I think Sunday is the ultimate deadline for the release, though.

skyjake

We should do the release today. I'm preparing the OS X release package and will upload it later today (along with the source package).

I already created the 1.9.0-beta6.4 release on SF.net so now we can just upload the files and add them to the release.

DaniJ

Sadly I never did get around to looking at the ATI issue, Real Life has been keeping me pretty busy just lately.

I'll prepare and upload the Win32 release package after dinner (spicy chicken pizza with salad).

skyjake

I've uploaded the OS X release, but for some reason I can't change the primary download for the platform, as the popup dialog where you can choose the file shows no files. SF.net bug...

<b>EDIT:</b> It appears that it's no longer needed to manually update the platform download page, as the beta6.4 OS X release now correctly shows up in the green download button.

DaniJ

I've uploaded the new deng-1.9.0-beta6.4-setup.exe package and attached it to the Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.4 release.

However I'm currently stuggling with the admin interface at SourceForge not letting me select it as the primary download package for the Windows platform. I'm about to retry with IE instead.

<strong>EDIT</strong>: Nope, its not working in IE either. Can you see if you are able to change the primary download for the Windows platform skyjake? All I'm being given the option of are a couple of the files from the Resources packages.

Thus far my impression of the new look sourceforge files area is not great

skyjake

Now the source is up there as well.

Yeah, the Download Page setup seems broken. Maybe they intend to discontinue it, given that apparently the platform-specific download page is no longer available. I think it's supposed to guess which file to offer on the Summary page based on some autodetection thingy.

<b>EDIT:</b> Also SF.net is throwing up Error 500 quite a lot...