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

[Greg Hellings]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Martin Gruner<mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

I added the ones that I mentioned in my email to that page. :)

--Greg

>
> 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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