[AWFFULL] Announcing AWFFull v3.9.1-beta1

[Steve McInerney]

Beta3 is now out:
http://www.stedee.id.au/files/awffull-3.9.1-beta3.tar.gz
md5sum: 0ae0acd60471dcee5e3b69b179bfccbf

Oden found a particular nasty that would crash awffull on output. In the
process of debuggering that, ended up doing a few other fixes/cleanups as well.

One change that *may* effect others is a revisit of the whole i18n stuff. ie
using LANG/LANGUAGE environment variables to override how awffull works.
Is based off a GNU document I found. My testing on Fed9, Ubuntu8.10 and
Mandriva 2008.1 all work... but ymmv :-)
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Using-gettextized-software.html

The other big(ish) change is the default font used is now 'sans' vs
'Helvetica'. Why? It's a tad prosaic, but upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10[1] totally
broke the font used by all numbers in the graphs for me.
Was because I use a bitmapped font for all my 'konsole' work and another
bitmapped font got priority for the graphs - ergo fail. Sigh. Took me a week
to track that sucker down... :-)

So do let me know if either of these two cause issues!


Cheers!
- Steve
[1] Hey I work for Canonical - it's kinda... *encouraged*. ;-)


on 26/10/08 21:51 Steve McInerney said the following:
> Now 'fess up. How many mild heart attacks did I just create?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> http://www.stedee.id.au/files/awffull-3.9.1-beta1.tar.gz
> md5sum: 4c7e8c266804ef532c12dbcd46af8a80
> 
> At long last, it is finally finished.
> The major change from the alpha earlier this year is the switch of the docco
> from a single man page, to 2 docbook xml files.
> Which in turn can produce: awffull.1 & awffull.conf.5
> I also took the opportunity thus presented to really do some major hack and
> slash cleanups on the docco. So thoughts et al are most welcome.
> 
> I'm not *insisting* ya'll use it by any stretch, but have shifted much of the
> project management (if you will) to Launchpad.
> The two biggest notables - I suspect for us all - are access to the
> Distributed VCS (via bzr); and the translation functionality that Launchpad
> creates.
> https://launchpad.net/awffull
> 
> The logo used is from the report redesign that Claudia did.
> 
> The other feature I'm finding most useful in launchpad is helping with
> planning. Via the blueprints feature.
> I have started using it to better... focus? each step on the path to world
> domination^W^W project success.
> 
> Which you'll see is currently:
> 3.9 - now done.
> 3.10 - purely a switch to GPLv3 - so that should - ha - be quite quick out the
> door.
> 4.0 - finally implement Claudia's redesign work.
> 
> Is not cast in stone, but that's the general plan at this stage.
> 
> 
> Anyway, enjoy the beta!
> 
> Cheer!
> - Steve
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