XaoS Changelog

What's new in XaoS 3.5

• New Portuguese translation courtesy of Lucio Henrique de Arujo and Zelia Maria Horta Garcia
• Fixed crash bug when using -render command line option with user formulas (Mateusz Malczak)
• Removed support for unmaintained platforms (DOS, BeOS, Plan 9, etc.)
• Updated documentation to reflect infrastructure changes
• (Discussion and issue tracking have moved to Google Groups and Google Code)
• Additional fractal examples by J.B. Langston
• Windows-specific changes
• Improved GUI appearance with modern fonts and controls on XP and Vista
• Help format changed from WinHelp to HtmlHelp. WinHelp was no longer
• supported starting with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• Fixed bug where output was invisible when using XaoS from the command line
• Simplified and improved build instructions for Windows developers
• 34 GTK+ User Interface (Beta)
• The GTK+ user interface is approaching beta quality. We welcome beta
• testers to try out this version and let us know what issues you encounter.
• Please share your feedback with us on the developer's discussion group at: http://groups.google.com/group/xaos-devel.
• We ask that beta testers be advanced users who are comfortable compiling software from source and submitting useful bug reports including backtraces.
• If you are not comfortable with this, then please wait for the final version
• to be released. We would also really appreciate it if any experienced GTK+ developers can review our code and make suggestions for improvement.
• Since the GTK+ UI is still not ready for everyday use, it will not be compiled by default. You must explicitly enable it using the following configure switch:
• --with-gtk-driver=yes
• In addition, we recommend you disable all other drivers when using the GTK
• driver using the following configure switches:
• --with-x11-driver=no
• We are in the process of migrating the XaoS help system to Sphinx and
• reStructuredText. Our user manual was previously in a crippled subset of HTML that we dubbed XSHL, which was missing many features necessary for maintaining modern, attractive documentation.
• Sphinx was developed by the Python project for their documentation, and
• it is very similar to a Wiki in the way you mark up the text. It can
• output the results as HTML, PDF, and Windows Help. It supports all the
• mportant things that are missing from the current help format, such as tables, images, and internet hyperlinks. It can even convert LaTeX math markup into image files that get included in the HTML output.
• The documentation still needs a lot of work before it is ready, and we have to make some modifications to Sphinx itself in order to integrate
• the documentation it produces with XaoS's help system. However, it is far enough along that we would welcome volunteers who are familar with reStructuredText to submit improvements to the documentation.
• The new documentation is located in the help/rest directory, and it can
• be converted into HTML or PDF using the included Makefile. In order to generate the output, you will need to install Sphinx. Visit the Sphinx
• homepage at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ for installation instructions and more information on the new documentation format.