[bt-devel] BibleTime 2.1.beta1 released - please test

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Greg, 

in summary of several important mails from you - please use 
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_Plan to collect, expand and keep 
track of the bugs that you find. They might be overlooked if only sent by mail.

mg

Am Montag, 29. Juni 2009 00:38:43 schrieb Greg Hellings:
> Wow, guess I need to pay better attention to that wiki page.  A few
> things I'd like to get addressed before the next weekend, and I may or
> may not have time to do them myself (I'm just getting over being sick
> this past week with a flu which I passed to my wife whom I am
> doctoring).
>
> --Remove the dependence on dirent.h in the one function where it
> exists.  This should be replaced with QDir and similar classes.
> --In our BibleTime initialization code we force the application to
> look for a file C:\Users\<User>\.sword\sword.conf regardless of the
> fact that the client is compiled and running in Windows and should be
> looking to C:\Users\<User>\Application Data\Sword.  Firstly the name
> .sword is not possible to create using Windows explorer, secondly the
> application will not create it for the user, and thirdly the modules
> installed to that directory by BibleTime cannot be located by other
> applications, such as Xiphos, because they use the defined behavior
> that the SWORD library already implements that properly searches under
> Application Data.  We should do the same and either just bow to the
> default behavior of the library or at least in our own implementation
> we should do the same thing that the library already does.
> --When the app starts for the first time in Windows it is "maximized"
> but it only appears on my screen with a size of about 400x400 pixels
> and I can move it around like a normal window but I can't resize it.
> However, when I click the "unmaximixe" button, it jumps to a normal
> size that can be resized in the normal fashion.  Not sure what's going
> on there -- I haven't heard anyone report that outside of Windows.
> --MOST IMPORTANTLY: a bug that is not specific to Windows is the
> appalling processing time that takes place after confirming in the
> "Install/Update works?" dialog and before the actual installation
> takes place.  Even with a mere 2-3 works, the dialog takes a
> noticeable number of seconds to change over.  For anything beyond 10
> works, the time is unmanageable.  The problem is certainly in
> something BibleTime is doing, because I have run the same install
> command (all Bibles available from CrossWire) in BibleTime and Xiphos
> on the same machine under Ubuntu with SWORD 1.6.0.  Xiphos was able to
> begin the download immediately and updated its view as soon as they
> were all done, whereas BibleTime took somewhere on the order of an
> hour or more processing before it began downloading, then would spend
> around 5 seconds between downloading a file before proceeding to the
> next file.  After downloading all of the modules and installing them,
> BibleTime again seemed to crash for about half the length of time it
> had previously before it brought back the Bookshelf Manager dialog.
> Needless to say the install in Xiphos took a few minutes total whereas
> with BibleTime the process took up the whole afternoon.
>
> I don't have any code performance tools, so I've been unable to
> discover the cause of the problem.  Anyone else is welcome to take a
> look!
>
> Those are just some outstanding issues.  I'll try and take a look as
> I'm able the upcoming week.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Martin Gruner<mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > in accordance with our schedule
> > (http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_Plan), BibleTime 2.1.beta1
> > was released today.
> >
> > Changes since 2.0.1:
> > -many user interfac translation updates
> > -new Brazilian handbook translation
> > -Bugfixes
> >        -Config Dialog does not open for first time starting of BibleTime
> >        -Config and Bookshelf Manager dialogs will remember their last
> >                size and position
> >        -Fix warning coming from document_magnifier.svg
> > -Build changes: Sword 1.6.0 and CMake 2.6.0 are required now
> >
> > Please test the package. Release date is scheduled for 12.07.2009 (2
> > weeks from now), I hope to prepare a rc release next weekend. Hopefully
> > some more bugfixes will make it in until then or until release.
> >
> > A personal note: sorry for being silent lately, but I started a new job
> > which puts me under load. I probably won't have time to work on the code
> > until the 2.1 final release.
> >
> > mg
> >
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