1.7 branch status?

[hendu]

I was wondering whether two fixes from trunk could be applied to the 1.7 branch, to save us from carrying patches

Q3 level image support, should apply directly:
http://irrlicht.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... threv=3677

GLSL segfault on exit, does not apply directly:
http://irrlicht.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... threv=3695

While the latter does not apply, a similar line ( *count=0;) would need to be added to only line 1209 of the 1.7 branch file. I can provide a patch if needed.


I'm also curious about the branch status, since it has accumulated a lot of fixes, and there hasn't been a release in a while, is there a 1.7.3 coming? From out here it looks like 1.8 will not arrive that soon to make such a release unnecessary.

[CuteAlien]

Would have to check what they exactly do, but if it's bugfixes then I think they should indeed be backported. But better to do that after the next merge with trunk, otherwise merging always gets tricky. I had planned that merge already a month ago or so, but I got somewhat off-track last few weeks and didn't work on Irrlicht. So there's still one patch I want to add before that (and that patch still isn't working - which was more or less the reason I got off-track *sigh*).

And yeah - 1.7.3 is starting to be a good idea. I just hope I can finish some a few more patches. Not sure if Hybrid also has something which should get in there - but I guess by end of next month would probably be fine with me (and I could use a little pressure to get back into Irrlicht coding right now...).

[hybrid]

There are only changes in the include/ directory of the branch, and also just a few. But it would indeed be easier to do a merge first, last one is about two weeks ago. Another release for the 1.7 track would be easy. And I have no urgent bug fixes there. The 1.8 release is still tied to the shadow implementation update, which did not improve for the last few weeks. So still no update for this.

[CuteAlien]

Ah OK, I didn't notice you merged 1.7 as well - I only saw the ES branch merged :-) Well, I try to kick my own ass to get some more gui-fixes in within the next weeks.

[hybrid]

Ok, fixes are now backported. Not yet tested, but hopefully works out of the box

[hendu]

Thanks!