[Thuban-list] Thuban 1.0rc1 released

[Bernhard Herzog]

Hi all,

I've just released the first release candidate for Thuban 1.0.
Download from the usual place: 
        http://thuban.intevation.org/download.html

The changes since Thuban 0.9 include:

 - Faster rendering

 - Extensions to import APR files, to convert GNS files to shapefiles or
   to use Thuban as a WMS client, among others. Most of these extensions
   are somewhat experimental though.

 - Thuban files written with the Windows version should be readable on
   Unix systems now in most cases

 - Support for EPSG projections

 - A command line switch to enable attribute editing. This is a bit
   dangerous so it's off by default.


What's missing for the final 1.0 release:

 - Updated translations. The strings to translate should not change
   anymore till 1.0 so now is the time to get the translations up to
   date.

 - There's a bug in the windows binary: The startup file thubanstart.py
   will not be executed. The reasons are detailed in the bug tracker
   (https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2241).

   I'm not sure what we can do about it until 1.0. Since the bug is more
   a Python 2.2 bug than a Thuban bug the easiest solution may be to
   build the windows binary with Python 2.3.



  Bernhard

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