Celestia 1.5.1rc2

[chris]

Anyone want to test the Celestia 1.5.1 package for Windows?

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... 5.1rc2.exe

Again, 1.5.1 is just a bug fix and internationalization release. Some annoying bugs in 1.5.0 were fixed, and a great deal of work was done to improve the translations. The only difference between 1.5.1rc1 and 1.5.1rc2 are a README modification and a German translation update (thanks Ulrich!)

If things are ok with this package, I'll upload it to SourceForge as 1.5.1 final.

--Chris

[bdm]

Can you post a change list to this thread?

[chris]

Here are the changes between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1:

* Added fonts for Russian, Chinese, and Japanese
* Updated translations
* Fixed date formatting for non-UTF8 locales
* Fixed crash for dates prior to JD -1.5 when local format is used
* Fixed star rendering for Macs with ATI graphics hardware (worked around
a driver bug in point sprite support.)
* Fixed star glare clipping bug
* Fixed bug that caused some stars to be drawn untextured
* Fixed faster/slower options in the Windows time menu to adjust time by
10x instead of 2x
* Fixed translation of time acronyms DST and STD
* Use localized versions of start script, guide, demo, license, and controls
file from locale directory
* Fixed Windows 98/ME input problem; most keyboard commands weren't working on
the OSes.
* Made Lua os functions available from celx scripts when access policy is "ask"

--Chris

[danielj]

Sorry to say that,but the atmospheric hole continues:

[t00fri]

Here are the changes between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1:

* Added fonts for Russian, Chinese, and Japanese
* Updated translations
* Fixed date formatting for non-UTF8 locales
* Fixed crash for dates prior to JD -1.5 when local format is used
* Fixed star rendering for Macs with ATI graphics hardware (worked around
a driver bug in point sprite support.)
* Fixed star glare clipping bug
* Fixed bug that caused some stars to be drawn untextured
* Fixed faster/slower options in the Windows time menu to adjust time by
10x instead of 2x
* Fixed translation of time acronyms DST and STD
* Use localized versions of start script, guide, demo, license, and controls
file from locale directory
* Fixed Windows 98/ME input problem; most keyboard commands weren't working on
the OSes.
* Made Lua os functions available from celx scripts when access policy is "ask"

--Chris

... too late for (?)

* spice fix for celestia.pro under Linux
* fix to admit absolute directory notation in VT ImageDirectory

F.

[duds26]

* Fixed star rendering for Macs with ATI graphics hardware (worked around
a driver bug in point sprite support.)

This bug was also on Windows, so best mention windows too.

[chris]

Here are the changes between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1:

* Added fonts for Russian, Chinese, and Japanese
* Updated translations
* Fixed date formatting for non-UTF8 locales
* Fixed crash for dates prior to JD -1.5 when local format is used
* Fixed star rendering for Macs with ATI graphics hardware (worked around
a driver bug in point sprite support.)
* Fixed star glare clipping bug
* Fixed bug that caused some stars to be drawn untextured
* Fixed faster/slower options in the Windows time menu to adjust time by
10x instead of 2x
* Fixed translation of time acronyms DST and STD
* Use localized versions of start script, guide, demo, license, and controls
file from locale directory
* Fixed Windows 98/ME input problem; most keyboard commands weren't working on
the OSes.
* Made Lua os functions available from celx scripts when access policy is "ask"

--Chris

... too late for (?)

* spice fix for celestia.pro under Linux
* fix to admit absolute directory notation in VT ImageDirectory

F.

The change to celestia.pro isn't necessary, as there won't be a Qt4 release of 1.5.1. I think that the fix to allow absolute directories for virtual textures can wait until 1.6.0. The fixes that were integrated into 1.5.1 are all critical or high-visibility problems that lots of people had complained about. The absolute directory patch is useful, but affects only a very small minority of users.

--Chris

[t00fri]

...
The absolute directory patch is useful, but affects only a very small minority of users.

--Chris

If you say so...

F.

[BobHegwood]

Just FYI, Chris...

Am using and have had NO problems on this machine with 1.5.1.
See signature for details.

Appreciate the program as always. This software is simply amazing
to me now that I have a machine that can use the goodies.

Thanks, Brain-Dead

[Adirondack]

Chris,

did you notice that all translated text files (from the SVN 1_5_1 trunk) are missing
in the locale folder of the rc1 and rc2 packages? Is this intended?

BTW and FYI: Only the text files were updated (not the .po) by Andy74, Guckytos and me.


Adirondack

[Guckytos]

Chris,

did you notice that all translated text files (from the SVN 1_5_1 trunk) are missing
in the locale folder of the rc1 and rc2 packages? Is this intended?

BTW and FYI: Only the text files were updated (not the .po) by Andy74, Guckytos and me.


Adirondack

I can only concurr with Ulrich, that the translated text files are missing in the RC 2.

But the good news for me is that Celestia keystrokes work again on my Win98 computer, as good as before.

Thanks, Chris.

Regards,

Guckytos

[duds26]

Hurray the stars are back

thanks

[chris]

Chris,

did you notice that all translated text files (from the SVN 1_5_1 trunk) are missing
in the locale folder of the rc1 and rc2 packages? Is this intended?

BTW and FYI: Only the text files were updated (not the .po) by Andy74, Guckytos and me.


Adirondack

I can only concurr with Ulrich, that the translated text files are missing in the RC 2.

But the good news for me is that Celestia keystrokes work again on my Win98 computer, as good as before.

Thanks, Chris.

Regards,

Guckytos

The omission of these files was not intentional. I've now uploaded rc3, which includes all the translated files as well as font files for languages with non-Latin character sets.

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... 5.1rc3.exe

The larger package size is a result of including new font files.

--Chris

[Guckytos]

Hmmm,

Chris you should really think about providing Celestia 1.6.0 then with language packs, that are standardized and come either as an addin package or with an installer.
Otherwise the Celstia package will get too big and people end up with a lot of languages they don't need.
Basic Celestia distribution in English and everything else as language packs.

Ok, and since I am at it, it would be really good, if Celestia then had the feature of being able to switch between languages. So you could look up, what the expression/name of something is in english.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,

Guckytos

Downloading RC3 now.

[Adirondack]

Otherwise the Celstia package will get too big and people end up with a lot of languages they don't need.

Well Guckytos, you are right, but 4 MB more or less... (the localization files are just ~2 MB or so)
Is this really significant, or worth the work to split the installation and to download more files?

Adirondack

[selden]

The size of Celestia's Windows installer has almost doubled since v1.3.0. I think it needs to be pruned to the minimum. A 12MB base file plus an extension, for example, might be appropriate.

[Kolano]

Version 1.3.2 was released in 2004 and is 12,234,628 bytes. Version 1.5.1rc3 is 23,790,082 bytes just less than 2x as big. In computing terms a 2x increase over 4 years doesn't seem that significant. Even on dial-up, 24mb doesn't seem like an unreasonable size.

[BobHegwood]

If I may here...

The size of the base installation is a factor whether people realize it or not. Since I'm using a very fast cable connection, I really don't mind downloading large files. I would like to point out, though, that when people are downloading the latest releases of Celestia from Shatters Net, the forum's performance slows to a crawl. Hasn't anyone else noticed this?

I would opt for optional language pack downloads if it's all the same to others here. Anything you can do to reduce the size of the entire package would be better for the entire community would it not?

At the risk of getting yelled at again, I would also point out that the ML could also host these language packs.
Sorry, but I have only heard rumors of what happened while I was away, so I'm just offering the suggestion.

If this suggestion is offensive, please believe me, it is NOT meant to be.

Thanks, Bob

[sanctus]

Does anyone know when 1.5.1 will be released I mean the official release

[selden]

Any day now. There are always last minute glitches which throw a monkey wrench into the works....