[Shotwell] Final call for testing: Shotwell 0.8.1

[Jim Nelson]

Obviously Shotwell doesn't ship with libraw as far as the distros are
concerned -- we're at their mercy there.

As far as the libraw on our PPA, we do have a ticket to upgrade that to
0.12: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2583  I think it's worthwhile to at least
consider it for the release, so I've upped the ticket.

-- Jim

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> What version of LibRAW will 0.8.1 ship with? 0.9.1 like 0.8 or a more
> recent version? Considering the number of new camera support added in
> LibRAW 0.10 and 0.11, it might be worth shipping the latest one.
>
> Bruno
>
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 13:31 -0800, Jim Nelson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We're wrapping up development of what will become Shotwell 0.8.1, the
> latest
> > version of Yorba's GNOME photo manager.  This release fixes a number of
> bugs
> > and adds some new features:
> >
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3030 - Support 3GP video
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3033 - Segfault importing JPEG
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3050 - Build with Vala 0.10.2
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3056 - Support Samsung SRW RAW files
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3057 - Video metadata issues w/ certain
> MP4
> > files
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3014 - Segfault when writing metadata to
> file
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3041 - Import freezes on an MPEG file
> > * http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3020 - Segfault at startup
> >
> > (Note that SRW files are currently not reported to Shotwell via gphoto2.
> > This should be fixed in the next release of gphoto2.)
> >
> > A final push of testing would help us work out anything we missed that's
> in
> > need of immediate attention.  If you're interested in testing this newest
> > version of Shotwelll, I encourage you to checkout the 0.8.1 candidate and
> > try it yourself.  I've merged changes from branch into trunk, so if
> you're
> > running from trunk you should see these fixes when you next update (as
> well
> > as some other goodies we've been working on).
> >
> > If you'd like to try what will soon be 0.8.1, follow the instructions
> here:
> >
> > http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/#source
> >
> > However, instead of pulling from trunk, I encourage you to use the branch
> > build, which is what will be packaged:
> >
> > $ svn co svn://svn.yorba.org/shotwell/branches/shotwell-0.8
> >
> > Since this is pre-release software, you might consider backing up your
> > library before starting:
> >
> > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ#HowcanIbackupmyShotwelllibrary
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Jim
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