DarkRadiant Release Mechanics

[greebo]

I've wikified a few points about DarkRadiant (windows) releases: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=DarkRadiant_Release_Mechanics Now that I'm possibly not the only one doing releases, I thought this would come in handy.

 

I was also thinking about writing some more detailed coding guidelines, but that's for later maybe.

[STiFU]

Hehe, more coding guidelines... Was I so bad??

 

But good thing you made that article. Didn't know about the RADIANT_VERSION preprocessor definition. What does it specifically do? Is it responsible for the version-entry on the exe's attributes?

[greebo]

But good thing you made that article. Didn't know about the RADIANT_VERSION preprocessor definition. What does it specifically do? Is it responsible for the version-entry on the exe's attributes?

No, it's responsible for the About dialog and the version displayed in the Log file and the XMLRegistry module. The version displayed in Help > About is the one users are looking at when reporting bugs.

[greebo]

@STiFU: could it be there are some build troubles with the recent release? Ungoliant says he has an error about dbgeng.dll not being found on his end. This sounds like a debug dependency, but I never encountered this myself before to be sure.

 

edit: comparing my local build with the one from sourceforge doesn't bring up any large differences, so I guess the build is fine. Maybe it's just this single machine.

[STiFU]

Those are with all certainty release builds and as I said, I tested both versions. So if the error occurs during loadup, there gotta be something wrong on his side.