Archive for November, 2010
Lightspark 0.4.5 RC is out!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Uncategorized on November 27, 2010
Finally, after a long delay caused by several issues Lightspark 0.4.5 is out. Here it is a brief Changelog.
- Include the new Advanced Graphics Engine, that should provide smoother and faster graphics and support for clipping
- More robust input support (makes it possible to use Play/Pause on YouTube)
The work on this released has been especially slowed down by an issue found in libxml++ and another one found in mesa. Packagers should pay attention to fulfill the following dependency requirements:
- Libxml++ version 2.33.1 or better. If an older version on libxml++ must be supported some commits must be backported. More info about this in the README file
- Mesa should include the fix for this bug. The issue affects some radeon and maybe intel cards.
Packages will be available for Fedora Rawhide and are already uploaded on the PPA for Ubuntu Maverick
Lightspark 0.4.5 RC is out!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Uncategorized on November 27, 2010
Finally, after a long delay caused by several issues Lightspark 0.4.5 is out. Here it is a brief Changelog.
- Include the new Advanced Graphics Engine, that should provide smoother and faster graphics and support for clipping
- More robust input support (makes it possible to use Play/Pause on YouTube)
The work on this released has been especially slowed down by an issue found in libxml++ and another one found in mesa. Packagers should pay attention to fulfill the following dependency requirements:
- Libxml++ version 2.33.1 or better. If an older version on libxml++ must be supported some commits must be backported. More info about this in the README file
- Mesa should include the fix for this bug. The issue affects some radeon and maybe intel cards.
Packages will be available for Fedora Rawhide and are already uploaded on the PPA for Ubuntu Maverick
See you in a week!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Uncategorized on November 16, 2010
Me and most of my engineering colleagues here at Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies are leaving tomorrow morning for a week long tour of universities and labs in Belgium and Netherlands. This means I’ll have no time to work on Lightspark, sorry
Anyway the 0.4.5 release will be probably out in the last days of the month. The critical bug in libxml++ is now fixed as my patch was accepted upstream. If (as I believe) a new version of the library will be released and packaged before i get back there will be no reason to hold the release anymore.
See you in a week!
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Uncategorized on November 16, 2010
Me and most of my engineering colleagues here at Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies are leaving tomorrow morning for a week long tour of universities and labs in Belgium and Netherlands. This means I’ll have no time to work on Lightspark, sorry
Anyway the 0.4.5 release will be probably out in the last days of the month. The critical bug in libxml++ is now fixed as my patch was accepted upstream. If (as I believe) a new version of the library will be released and packaged before i get back there will be no reason to hold the release anymore.
On the road to Lightspark 0.4.5
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on November 7, 2010
The last week have been pretty busy for lightspark development. As the Advanced Graphics Engine is now merged in master the upcoming 0.4.5 release will feature better looking graphics and reduced CPU consumptions.
Moreover, input support has been completely redesigned. The new approach is very robust, even of the very complex and crowded YouTube interface and with lightspark 0.4.5 it will be finally possible to click the pause button.
Currently the release is on hold because of a bug in libxml++, the library used in lightspark to handle XML files. I’ve submitted some patches that correct the bug (that caused random crashes inside firefox code) but they’re still waiting for a review. I’m considering and discussing with packagers if bundling a patched libxml++ inside lightspark could be a good temporary solution, until the library gets patched upstream. More news about this in the next few days.
As a last note, I’ve received some feedback from the developer working on the PPC port and I’m happy to show a first image of Lightspark running on a PPC machine. There are still issues with graphics and some remaining endianess swapping to be done, but the port is taking a reasonable shape finally.
On the road to Lightspark 0.4.5
Posted by Alessandro Pignotti in Lightspark on November 7, 2010
The last week have been pretty busy for lightspark development. As the Advanced Graphics Engine is now merged in master the upcoming 0.4.5 release will feature better looking graphics and reduced CPU consumptions.
Moreover, input support has been completely redesigned. The new approach is very robust, even of the very complex and crowded YouTube interface and with lightspark 0.4.5 it will be finally possible to click the pause button.
Currently the release is on hold because of a bug in libxml++, the library used in lightspark to handle XML files. I’ve submitted some patches that correct the bug (that caused random crashes inside firefox code) but they’re still waiting for a review. I’m considering and discussing with packagers if bundling a patched libxml++ inside lightspark could be a good temporary solution, until the library gets patched upstream. More news about this in the next few days.
As a last note, I’ve received some feedback from the developer working on the PPC port and I’m happy to show a first image of Lightspark running on a PPC machine. There are still issues with graphics and some remaining endianess swapping to be done, but the port is taking a reasonable shape finally.