New Avogadro Screencast and Updates

I made a new Avogadro screencast earlier today, trying new formats and preparing a showcase of features in the recent 0.9.0 release. Unfortunately, due to an API change in Eigen this release only builds with eigen-2.0_beta6. The sources in git work with the recently released eigen-2.0, and I will try to make a new release in the near future.

The video shown above, is also available on YouTube, but the encoding does not look as good as on blip.tv. It shows off several of the features present in the current Avogadro release. There are a few issues with the Windows installer, which is another reason to put a small bug fix release out soon.

I have been putting my newly acquired Qt takes to compile in a Windows virtual machine, I do have a working Windows build environment now. I got CDash working for our project, even without unit tests it is great for flagging build errors/warnings on multiple platforms. I also have CPack generating our NSIS based Windows installer now. There are a few rough edges remaining that I hope to iron out soon, but I think our packaging just got a lot easier - thanks to Bill and Kitware.

Things have been really hectic since I got back from Camp KDE. Had a great time, met lots of really interesting people, did not sleep very much (need to take ear plugs next time) and found my Eee PC with KDE 4.2 (rc at the time) worked great the whole week, and it is so light.

When I got back I found out that our espresso machine broke, and the electronics shop declared it a lost cause earlier today :-( This has meant a serious espresso shortage since my return! Why do they always concentrate on redundant power systems for the clusters, but not redundant espresso systems for the researchers???

So really busy right now, hopefully good news coming soon on several fronts - keep your fingers crossed! I am loving KDE 4.2, CMake and Qt but in dire need of espresso products ;-)

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