Survex 1.2.24 released

[James Begley]

Hiya,

For a long time I've been meaning to make use of Fedora's copr
functionality to build survex, and I've finally got round to getting this
working.  Copr is a fedora buildsystem that will cleanly compile RPMs for
installation on any fedora (or fedora compatible) linux workstation - its a
bit like the "ppa" functionality in ubuntu.

The easiest way to get copr working on a fedora 21/22 workstation is to use
the "dnf" package manager, and run the following command
# dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Once that has installed things, you can then run the following command
(again as root) to enable the survex repository that I've created
# dnf copr enable jmbegley/survex

And finally to install survex you can then run
# dnf install survex

Brief information about the copr repository is here
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jmbegley/survex/ and I'll try to
ensure that it is updated whenever a new survex release is made.

Cheers,
James.

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 at 03:06 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> Survex 1.2.24 is now available:
>
> http://survex.com/download.html
>
> This release notably improves the processing of data through aven on
> Microsoft Windows, and also adds a workaround for breakage in Therion
> caused by changes in 1.2.23.
>
> See the NEWS file entry below for a full list.
>
> No Mac OS X build this time, though only a few minor changes in this
> release are relevant on the Mac.
>
> Here are SHA1 checksums should you want to verify the integrity of the
> files:
>
> 3cb376f7088c96e2d098869973eba53258f490e6  survex-1.2.24.tar.gz
> 75612ead16dc3621f1fb410eadff68e2f5fa3dc1  survex-win32-1.2.24.exe
>
> There are also detached GPG signatures in the download directory:
> http://survex.com/software/1.2.24/
>
> There are "release notes" on the wiki, which I'll try to keep updated
> with any issues found, so take a look there for the latest information:
>
> http://trac.survex.com/wiki/ReleaseNotes/1.2.24
>
> Please report any issues you find which are not covered in the release
> notes to the bug tracker (http://trac.survex.com/).
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
> Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
>
> * aven:
>
>   + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by
> Brian
>     Clipstone.
>
>   + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in
> Therion.
>     Reported by Jenny Black.
>
>   + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a
> separate
>     thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use
> select),
>     and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
>
>   + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
>     locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
>     messages.
>
>   + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
>     the terminal in 1.2.23.
>
> * (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which
> Fedora's
>   wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
>
> * Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
>
> * Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.
> Reported
>   by Wookey.
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