[squeakland] Etoys 4.1 Release Candidate 3

Sat Sep 25 17:20:10 EDT 2010

Interesting...

How many people contribute to the release ? Are you organized as a scrum 
team? In less than a month I joined the distro I saw more than one release 
coming, very good job here...

Regards, Carlos

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
To: "etoys dev" <etoys-dev at squeakland.org>
Cc: "squeakland.org mailing list" <squeakland at squeakland.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: [squeakland] Etoys 4.1 Release Candidate 3

> Hi folks,
>
> here is another release candidate. Hopefully there will be no more changes 
> needed until Monday for the actual release (except for updating 
> translations).
>
> I made only an Etoys-To-Go version of RC3, this is sufficient for testing 
> I think:
>
> http://squeakland.org/download/#rc
>
> Would be nice if someone could bring the release notes to a nicer form, 
> maybe similar to the 4.0 ones:
>
> http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Etoys+4.1+Release+Notes
>
> We need them on Monday to include in the installers.
>
> Changes since second release candidate:
>
> * fix viewer only showing two empty panes in Spanish
> * fix Castle tutorial previous project
> * fix decimal places in loaded QuickGuide scriptors (e.g. ScaleFactor 
> guide)
> * updated translations: de, ja, es, mn
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 20.09.2010, at 02:24, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> Changes since first release candidate:
>>
>> * fix toolbar being broken after being hidden
>> * fix paintbox in event theatre
>> * fix SuppliesPlayersTool guide
>> * fix SQ-791: Journal saving fails in Sugar 0.82.1
>> * remove MenuMakeNewFlap guide from index
>> * both ctrl-click and cmd-click bring up halo on Mac
>> * updated translations: de, ja, ta
>> * add soundReverb preference
>> * add button to reset saved preferences
>> * put manifest in front of project file, uncompressed for easier access
>> * fix SQ-816: Error when adding variable named 'val'
>> * fix tile help balloons not being translated (SQ-821)
>> * ensure preferences default values are set correctly
>>
>> On 12.09.2010, at 17:41, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Changes since the beta release:
>>>
>>> * pop-up arrows now enabled by default
>>> * new DrGeo examples project (see gallery)
>>> * new home project (green border more visible)
>>> * Demon Castle renamed to Etoys Castle and fixed
>>> * revised guides for English and Spanish
>>> * DrGeoII translations for es,fr,ja,de
>>> * updated German and Japanese translations
>>> * removed languages with too few translations (ar_SY, en_GB, km, pap, 
>>> pl, zh_TW)
>>> * hide distracting/not-functional preference panel buttons
>>> * allow negative timer values
>>> * shared flaps are not destroyed anymore when switching projects
>>> * various smaller fixes
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29.08.2010, at 23:20, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> here is the first Etoys 4.1 beta release:
>>>>
>>>> http://etoys.squeak.org/download/Etoys-4.1-beta1-ToGo.zip
>>>>
>>>> Here are the changes since Alpha 2:
>>>>
>>>> * updated translations from Pootle
>>>> * added languages zh_CN, ca, sk, pap, pl, km, en_GB, ar_SY
>>>> * revised Italian, Portuguese, and German Guides
>>>> * no save on stop under Sugar, must use keep button (enable 
>>>> sugarAutoSave to override)
>>>> * easier to make flap (see supplies)
>>>> * GSoC addition: scriptable speech bubbles
>>>> * translatable of Text object must be enabled explicitly
>>>> * minor fixes
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>>>
>>>> On 20.08.2010, at 00:33, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here is the second alpha version of the upcoming Etoys 4.1 release:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://etoys.squeak.org/download/Etoys-4.1-alpha2.zip
>>>>>
>>>>> I had to make a quick update to alpha 1 because some Sugar stuff was 
>>>>> seriously broken.
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes since alpha1:
>>>>>
>>>>> * fix Sugar DBus service methods
>>>>> * fix NavBar not showing Sugar buttons
>>>>> * fix 'length' and 'width' being read-only
>>>>> * flip commands renamed to 'flip left right' and 'flip up down'
>>>>> * fix QuickGuides showing up twice (if name in index differed from 
>>>>> file name), or not at all (if not in index)
>>>>> * update Monticello to Squeak trunk version, and enlarge windows
>>>>> * fix for SQ-683 (can't create script in Greek)
>>>>> * fix for SQ-690 (Latin2 font broken)
>>>>> * renamed one Italian guide (HaloL'Visualizzatore to 
>>>>> HaloLVisualizzatore)
>>>>>
>>>>> - Bert -
>>>>
>>>>> On 16.08.2010, at 03:33, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the first alpha version of the upcoming Etoys 4.1 release:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://etoys.squeak.org/download/Etoys-4.1-alpha1.zip
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please test and report problems. If this basically works (I did not 
>>>>>> try on Windows and Linux), we can announce it on Squeakland for wider 
>>>>>> testing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is only the Etoys-To-Go version. Installers for Mac and Windows 
>>>>>> won't come before beta (unless someone volunteers to start working on 
>>>>>> them now).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The biggest changes since Etoys 4 are
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * added DrGeo for exploring geometry
>>>>>> * Sketches support flipping
>>>>>> * geometry tiles for the world
>>>>>> * timer tile (world and other playfields)
>>>>>> * can store preferences
>>>>>> * QuickGuides translated to Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and 
>>>>>> (some) French
>>>>>> * translations broken up in smaller files
>>>>>> * system organized in packages, developed using Monticello
>>>>>> * whatever I forgot (need to start working on release notes, which 
>>>>>> should also have proper attributions)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a few weeks now to the final release. There are still a few 
>>>>>> additions in the pipeline (Richo's bubbles, Jerome's smooth curves, 
>>>>>> my Sugar stuff) which can still make the cut if we think the risk is 
>>>>>> low. But mainly we need to iron out bugs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks to everyone who helped making this! You guys rock :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>
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