[Shotwell] Final call for testing: Shotwell 0.8.1

[Bruno Girin]

Yes, that's what I meant: the one in the PPA. Which also means that the
version of Shotwell in the PPA should be compiled with 0.12.

Re-reading my email, it was indeed confusing...

Bruno

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 18:42 -0800, Jim Nelson wrote:
> 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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