Angband 3.3.0 is out

[qwerty]

Hi Qwerty - your help files are included with 3.3.0! In fact it's the very last thing we did. So - many, many thanks for this - and to myshkin.

Are you interested in maintaining the content of the help files? (Feel free to say no to this, as your work on the conversion is plenty.)

What would that involve? I'm not sure if I am the right person to be giving advice about anything to other players so whilst I am happy to add in bits and bobs as instructed and move stuff around someone else would have to tell me (roughly) what to do so that may defeat the object. Any input?

[relic]

When will there be a OSX version?

[Tobias]

Where will the pdf help end up if I install from a package manager?

I understand why the input stuff takes longer. After all I tried, and failed, to get through the code myself.

[Magnate]

So the most annoying bug for me is still in.... (#1460)
Could you make a list of bugs which were bumped to the next version next time?

This is what trac.rephial.org is for. The timeline shows a bunch of stuff that was bumped over the last couple of weeks (and you can set the date range and filter stuff), and the query function lets you list everything that's tagged as 3.4 (or indeed any other milestone). You can also use the search function and search for "Milestone changed to".

I'm sorry that not all the input bugs were fixed - there are a lot of them, as the input rewrite is a work in progress and there are a lot of different platforms and keyboards to support. It's a colossal job (Angband's input layer has been growing in a hideously piecemeal fashion for decades) and not many of the devteam have the knowledge to work on it (it doesn't lend itself well to different people doing different bits). But I promise that I will port as many fixes as possible to 3.3.1, hopefully including #1460.

I am also planning to record a new tutorial video now that 3.3 is out. Please tell me if there is something you think I should mention.

Can't think of anything off the top of my head. Once the help PDF is included in the download, it would be great to show finding it and opening it up though!

[Timo Pietilä]

I might be blind, but this is not on the download page.

It's in official angband page http://rephial.org

[Raggy]

I might be blind, but this is not on the download page.

[Tobias]

So the most annoying bug for me is still in.... (#1460)
Could you make a list of bugs which were bumped to the next version next time?

I am also planning to record a new tutorial video now that 3.3 is out. Please tell me if there is something you think I should mention.

[Nomad]

ARGH!! Sorry about that - I could have sworn it was included. They'll definitely definitely be in 3.3.1 - I've created ticket #1498 to make sure I don't forget again.

Sorry - and thanks for the contribution!

No problem - thanks!

[Magnate]

Hey, not so much a bug as an oversight, but the 3.3.0 release still doesn't have the updated version of my tileset included.

ARGH!! Sorry about that - I could have sworn it was included. They'll definitely definitely be in 3.3.1 - I've created ticket #1498 to make sure I don't forget again.

Sorry - and thanks for the contribution!

[Magnate]

Hi,
Do you still want the help files in pdf format, if so I am still happy to do them for you but do need a couple of days and the new files.
Thanks for the new version.

Hi Qwerty - your help files are included with 3.3.0! In fact it's the very last thing we did - there's now a new make target ("make manual") to build the pdf from your LaTeX files. So - many, many thanks for this - and to myshkin, who did all the heavy lifting incorporating your work into the master repo (and updating the text to 3.3).

Having said that, I notice that the Windows download at rephial doesn't actually contain the built PDF. I'll ask takk to fix this and upload a version which does.

On the issue of future updates, we obviously want to avoid having two sources of help files and the associated sync problems. For 3.4 my hope is that the source tarball will *only* contain the .tex files, and that the build system will build both the PDF and the in-game help (which may or may not be in HTML by then). Are you interested in maintaining the content of the help files? (Feel free to say no to this, as your work on the conversion is plenty.)

[Nomad]

Hey, not so much a bug as an oversight, but the 3.3.0 release still doesn't have the updated version of my tileset included.

[qwerty]

Hi,
Do you still want the help files in pdf format, if so I am still happy to do them for you but do need a couple of days and the new files.
Thanks for the new version.

[Timo Pietilä]

Maybe I'm just missing it, but is the option to hide labels in equipment listing still around?

Apparently not. I miss that too, because now I don't see the entire item in the screen.

[Dughfo]

Maybe I'm just missing it, but is the option to hide labels in equipment listing still around? Thanks, and the game looks great!

[APWhite]

How about "sometime between the next equinox and the following solstice"?

Durin's Day! I just read that part of The Hobbit to my boys.