[IAEP] SoaS feedback

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Edward,

On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:02, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>>> It saves on mine, in Strawberry. Which version of SoaS are you  
>>> using?
>>
>> Just to confirm: Physics-2 has no save support, v2 is the currently
>> released/distributed version.
>
> I'm running v2, and I'm looking at a saved session in Journal. Screen
> shots attached.

Have you tried resuming one? If you're using the current release they  
will be the usual blank Journal entries with no world state (I did  
specifically note that in the activities.sl.org release notes).

Asaf, Brian, and myself made the call to dig in, rescue, debug, and  
fix-up the old semi-released Physics from bit-rotting over at  
wiki.lt.org. Physics-2 was our first cycle on that effort (may thanks  
to both of them for taking this task on). For more information please  
see:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics

... and a recent Activity IRC meeting we had a couple of weeks back  
will give you a good idea of where we're going with future Physics  
releases:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Activities/Physics

Regards,
--Gary

>> We have been working on the next Physics release cycle in its git
>> repository. State saving has been working there for a couple of  
>> weeks now.
>> The saved states that the development version currently generates  
>> are a
>> temporary format that are in the process of being replaced so we  
>> have some
>> control over the storage format for future proofing against Box2D  
>> changes.
>> Are you using a development version of Physics from git?
>>
>> An official Physics-3 will likely be released (within a few weeks I  
>> hope)
>> including this new work.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary