Wesnoth 1.3.7

Post by **zookeeper** » September 2nd, 2007, 7:45 pm

xamil wrote:I have a short question.
When 1.3 line will be stable?
I dont expect an exacly date... i just want to know if this will be month, 3, 6, year or maybe two?;)

I'd personally guess a stable 1.4 release sometime within six months.

Stedevil · Post by **Stedevil** » September 3rd, 2007, 9:27 pm

ivanovic wrote:
Myr wrote:Is there a place one couple upload a compiled binary? I noticed there is no downloadable deb for the latest stable or dev release for Ubuntu, and I made one for 1.3.7.
Ehm, there were binaries, just have a look at the debian mirrors. Wesnoth tends to be updated in there in basically no time...

Well, still no 1.3.7 on there yet. Additionally, I would love to have 1 ubuntu package with everything included, instead of figuring out which set of 16(!!) .deb packages best matches with my Ubuntu version.

Myr how big is that package of yours? Can it be uploaded to a free hosting site?

Post by **Boucman** » September 4th, 2007, 11:11 am

I think the wesnoth sub-packages (campaigns etc...) are going to be switched from "suggest" to "recommand" and thus be installed by default soon...

Post by **Iris** » September 4th, 2007, 12:56 pm

Boucman wrote:I think the wesnoth sub-packages (campaigns etc...) are going to be switched from "suggest" to "recommand" and thus be installed by default soon...

I think I'm not getting it. A little more detail?

Do you mean that "recommended" UMC will be installed automatically by BfW when it connects to the campaign server?

Post by **ivanovic** » September 4th, 2007, 1:00 pm

Shadow Master wrote:
Boucman wrote:I think the wesnoth sub-packages (campaigns etc...) are going to be switched from "suggest" to "recommand" and thus be installed by default soon...
I think I'm not getting it. A little more detail? :D Do you mean that "recommended" UMC will be installed automatically by BfW when it connects to the campaign server?

That is just something special about the debian binaries (which ubuntu does use, too). The binaries are split into several packages, one for the maingame without any campaigns, one for the music, one for each campaign and so on. In general all the campaigns are suggested dependencies for the game binary itself but some package managers (like the one default in ubuntu) does not use/show these recommended packages...

Post by **Boucman** » September 4th, 2007, 2:58 pm

OK, more specifically

this is deeply debian/ubuntu specific

in these distros, Wesnoth is splited into multiple packages, one for the main game, and one for each mainline campaign (and a few more that are not relevant here)

each package can specify dependency on other packages, with different level

* require: the package won't work without the other packages (campaigns require the main wesnoth package)
* suggest: if you install this package, you probably will be interested in that other package (currently the wesnoth core suggest all campaigns)
* recommand : if you install this package, you most certainly want that other package. it's not mandatory, but you should know what you're doing if you don't install it ( wesnoth will recommand campaigns in future releases)

so the big change is that previously, installing wesnoth wouldn't install campaigns unless you asked for them

in the future, wesnoth will install all campaigns unless you specifically ask not to...

Post by **Soliton** » September 4th, 2007, 6:40 pm

Boucman wrote:I think the wesnoth sub-packages (campaigns etc...) are going to be switched from "suggest" to "recommand" and thus be installed by default soon...

They are already recommended. The problem is the default setting of the package manager which should be to automatically install recommended packages but apparently that isn't the case everywhere.