News/2007-02-13

From Synfig

pabs is back from sailing the high seas and into the thick of synfig stuff.

While he was away:

• lots of patches were sent in
• some patches were applied to svn
• a new unofficial Win32 build was created
• questions were asked on irc

Stuff achieved for the next release:

• We have a Win32 build maintainer, for at least a year (welcome Atrus)!
• g++ no longer seems to miscompile synfig and if it does there is a simple workaround
• the OOM condition when building synfigstudio on non-i386 platforms may not occur, this needs testing
• Lots of crashers and other bugs fixed
• A couple of small features added
• Some parts of the UI were reworked

Things that still need to be fixed for the release:

• We need a MacOS build maintainer and a good MacOS build (preferably a universal build).

Things that we probably should fix, not sure if they are release blockers or not, please provide feedback about this:

• The synfigstudio gif, dv, ffmpeg and imagemagick targets still crash. synfig ones are fine though.

Stuff that would be nice, but isn't essential:

• Move away from the bootstrap scripts to autoreconf
• Make synfig and synfigstudio relocatable (ala portableapps.com)
• Fix all the bugs and add all the feature requests
• Achieve world peace :)