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ONScripter-EN 20110930 "Yakisoba"

This release (see Downloads) ushers in some major changes to ONScripter-EN:

Updated Libraries

The external libraries for ons-en have been updated to the following versions:

  • SDL 1.2.14 (w/bugfix patches)
  • SDL_image 1.2.10
  • SDL_ttf 2.0.10
  • SDL_mixer 1.2.11
  • freetype 2.4.6
  • jpeg 8c
  • libpng 1.4.8
  • smpeg rev391 (w/bugfix patches)
  • libogg 1.3.0
  • libvorbis 1.3.2
  • bzip2 1.0.6
  • zlib 1.2.5

Hello onscrlib

In the process of wrestling with updates to the external library source code in "extlib", Roto created a new package management system: ONScripter Static Libraries (onscrlib). It's a much less painful way to update library packages while still controlling which versions are used and applying necessary patches.

Now that we've modified ons-en's build process to support onscrlib, there's little reason to keep the old "extlib" folders, and so we've removed them from the release (along with "win_dll" and "tools/libgnurx").

If you download both the onscripter-en and onscrlib source packages to the same folder and unpack them from there, you should be able to run ./configure and make in the usual fashion. Let us know if you have problems.

Farewell Subversion

Though we've been using Mercurial for our main development since early this year, we still maintained the Subversion repository in parallel. We are satisifed with Mercurial, and since this new release removes/changes a lot of files and will be depending on the separate onscrlib repository, we're ready to stop porting the ONScripter-EN releases from Mercurial to Subversion.

Who Wants Yakisoba!?

ONScripter-EN now uses codenames for major releases, primarily so we can label upcoming releases before we know their final date-based version number, but also because yum :) Look for more Japanese taste treats as development continues!

And so...?

What do all these changes mean for you ONScripter-EN users? Mainly bugfixes, but Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) users are definitely going to want this release if you like playing in fullscreen mode ;)

We can't be sure what the library upgrades will mean for all of you, so please let us know if you run into issues.

Note that we have removed support for MOD sound file playback (at least until we get the libmod working properly), and are also dropping PowerPC from the Mac OS X universal binary release (though it still supports intel machines as far back as OS X 10.4).

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