[IAEP] SoaS feedback

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yes. Several times.

> 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
>
>



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