GPlates 2.6.0-dev8-SR1 (unofficial fork)

An unofficial community fork of GPlates. Not produced by, endorsed by, or supported by the GPlates development team — please do not report problems with this build to them.

Built from release/2.6.0-dev8-SR1 (12370ee48), on top of upstream GPlates 2.6.0-dev8.

Getting it running

Windows: download the zip, unzip it anywhere, run gplates.exe. There is no installer and nothing to configure — every dependency is bundled, so it does not need Python, Qt or conda installed.

macOS: not built yet. A build workflow now exists in the repository, but no .dmg has been produced.

What is in this build

Fixes

• Opening a project or clearing a session no longer aborts the application. Two discarded Scribe transcribe results were throwing from a destructor, which reaches std::terminate without unwinding — so no handler could catch it, nothing was logged, and the process simply vanished
• Upstream's fix for the same class of failure (GPlates/GPlates#42), which makes such aborts diagnosable instead of silent
• Pole adjustments commit to the model correctly (upstream #39)
• Preferences radio buttons save properly under Qt6
• Files under non-ASCII paths load and save reliably
• Qt's font-probe logging no longer floods the log with qt.text.font.db: OpenType support missing...

Features

• Place Circular Features — World Building menu; place size-limited circular polygons or closed polylines that persist as real, undoable features
• Split Plate — cut a plate polygon with a polyline
• Retire Subducted Oceanic Crust
• Rotation File Editor, keyframe copy, and drift correction tools
• Multi-vertex editing — Shift-click vertices or Shift-drag a lasso, then move them together
• Select Last Created Feature — Edit menu, below Redo; moves the view into the feature's lifetime if it is not currently visible
• Active Feature Types preferences, with save/load; DN.txt and WorldbuildingPasta.txt ship beside gplates.exe
• Rotation Hierarchy viewer, bulk Plate ID operations, Absolute Age draw style

Known caveats

• The drift-rotation checkbox on the pole adjustment dialog has never been exercised by anyone. If you use it, check the .rot file actually changed on disk rather than trusting the dialog to close.

Reporting problems

Open an issue on this repository, not on upstream GPlates. GPlates_log.txt sits next to gplates.exe and is truncated on every launch — copy it before relaunching if something goes wrong.

Licence

GPlates is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Corresponding source for this build is this repository, at the commit named above.