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Rockbox General => Announcements => Topic started by: bluebrother on August 29, 2007, 05:11:47 PM

Title: Rockbox Utility: the graphical installer for Rockbox
Post by: bluebrother on August 29, 2007, 05:11:47 PM
Hi all,

in the past few weeks we managed to do quite some work on the new Qt port of Rockbox Utility (aka. rbutil) (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtilityQt). It is now equivalent to the old wxwidgets version regarding functionality -- but definitely not regarding bugs! To iron out the remaining bugs and make it possible having Rockbox Utility *the* complete Rockbox installer we need your help for testing. Try every possible combination, try to make it reproducibly crash, try to find any bug you could imagine ;)


Why a new version? Well, besides the technical reasons I'd like to sum up key features of Rockbox Utility:


There are a few known issues. Please don't report the following as bugs as we're aware of it already. We keep a list of known issues on the wiki page so please refer to that.

In case you missed the link earlier, go to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility for details -- updates will be posted to that wiki page.

Happy hunting!

Update (2007-09-03):
Rockbox Utility has been updated -- current version is 1.0.1. Now including:

Update (2007-10-18):
Rockbox Utility has been updated to 1.0.2. The update includes
Testing is still needed, so don't hesitate and try it! ;)