Snapshot 2024-12-22

Headline Items

• mwp is migrated to Gtk4.
• Please see the migration guide for system requirements etc. and migration from the legacy version.

Recent changes

• Improve Line of Sight Analysis
  • LOS locale identification and handling
  • LOS Visualisation
• Numerous Windows fixes
• Add Windows specific section to user guide

The architectural changes to support Windows / MSys2 have been substantial and intrusive. Do not be surprised if there is collateral breakage. Please report such instances if you find them.

For now, the Windows (Msys2) installer is published separately.

• Survey / Search / Area planner integrated into mwp (no longer an external tool)

  • Area Plan
  
  • Expanding Square
  
  • Spiral
  

Janitorial notes

• Other bug and regression fixes.
• Please raise Github issues for stuff that is broken / regressions (much has changed internally to support the Windows build).
• The prior master (Gtk+-3.0) branch has been renamed to legacy, is no longer maintained and is read-only.
• The User Guide contains updated documentation.

Installation

• A Debian archives is provided below.
• Arch Linux AUR package
• Other platforms / OS please follow the documented build instructions.
• Windows installer.

For the Debian package:

Built on Ubuntu LTS (24.04).

# download
$ curl -LO https://github.com/stronnag/mwptools/releases/download/x.y.z/mwptools_x.y.z_amd64.deb
# install
$ sudo apt install ./mwptools_x.y.z_amd64.deb

Where x.y.z. represents the version tag (e.g. 24.12.22)