[Scummvm-devel] 0.4.0 release information

[Max Horn]

At 14:49 Uhr -0600 04.02.2003, J.Brown (Ender/Amigo) wrote:
>Hi all. I want to start gearing up for 0.4.0 around now. Here is a short
>list of things which still need working on:
>
>  - GUI Tabs. Fingolfin, do you have any time to whip this up?

Dunno. I think before we worry about those (and introduce more bugs), 
we should  first wire the existing options dialog.


>  - ComI issues (release critical, in order of imporance):
>     * Remaining walkbox issue (eriktorbjorn is having a try atm)
>     * Verb coin appears under inventory
>     * Some text redraw issues still remain
>     * Translations (de at least) crashes on Part 1 title
>     * Reported SMUSH issues on low-end macs (more info needed)
>     * setActorLimbFrame issues (wallys phantom head & hook)
>  - Regression testing (I'm woring on some)
>    * If you want to easily do cvs update -D's, I suggest just
>      downloading the 10mb CVSROOT tarball and importing it
>      locally. URL on request for those who don't now it.
>  - CVS Freeze

I think it might be much cleaner if we instead do a branch instead. 
If needed, I can write up some instructions for all developers on how 
to work with that. It's really easy, you only have to checkout once 
the branch, and then commit on it like normal (e.g. I have my scummvm 
HEAD cvs checkout in a dir called "scummmvm", and if we would make a 
0.4.0 branch, I'd check it out in a seperate dir called 
"scummvm-0.4.0".

The advantage: people can keep implementing new stuff on the head 
branch, while we would only commit fixes on the 0.4.0 branch. And if 
we notice a week after the releae that there is one bad bug, we can 
tag 0.4.1 on the branch, even if HEAD cvs received major modificatins 
in the meantime.

Working on a branch isn't hard, folks. For our purposes, you only 
have to checkout a second working directory, that's all. Anything 
complicated (like branch merges) are not necessary for us, and if 
they are, i can deal with them.


Cheers,

Max