Re: xboard 4.4.0
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:55:17AM +0200, h.g. muller wrote:
> I applied the "series" style patches[1] to our most recent source for 4.4.0.
> It will probably appear in the savannah repository soon, I already mailed
> the updated files to Arun Persaud, who will commit them.
>
> Patch 8 and 11 concern an automatically generated file, (xboard.man),
> that contains a message that it should not be edited. So I am not sure
> what to do with them, or if they can be reflected in a change in the
> xboard.texi
> source further upstream. I asked Arun to have a look at it, he is our Linux
> man. The other patches seemed innocent enough, and even where I had no
> idea what their actual effect would be (like replacing an xterm by an
> x-term-emulator),
> I suppose they address some valid concern, and applied them.
The x-terminal-emulator case is a matter of Debian policy (which will also
apply to Ubuntu and other derivatives). Probably the best solution there is
to make that string be either a build-time or run-time option.
> The problems in the 4.3.16 texi file no longer seem to exist, when I used
> "make"
> on my Ubuntu Hardy with the most recent 4.4.0 source in the savannah repository
> I get no errors at all, and the misspelled keywords (@citem, @cinex) that
> are likely
> to be responsible for the rest of the errors no longer occur in the file.
>
> Note that the 4.3.16 snapshot was never a release, but was committed to reflect
> my work in progress on the 4.3 fork just before we decided to do the merger
> (wich is actually more a reverse takeover). And I do almost all
> development under
> Windows (using Cygwin) on WinBoard. Only when I am ready to release, I
> make an attempt to build an xboard from the source, under Linux, to see if
> my enhancements in the common code don't break anything for xboard.
> For 4.3.16 this was just never done. So the XBoard docs, which have a separate
> source from the WinBoard docs, were never compiled at all, although I usually
> add the description of new command-line options to it immediately, in parallel
> with the update of the winboard.rtf docs (if these options would apply to
> XBoard
> as well).
>
> We are very close to a release of 4.4.0 now; in fact we are mainly waiting for
> someone who offered to make a Windows installer for us, and debating what
> non-WinBoard components to include in that.
I've forward-ported our patchset and uploaded 4.4.0.alpha6.
Some problems with that:
1) xboard tries to run fairymax, which is not in Debian [I think this was expected]
2) make install places a copyright.info file into /usr/share/info.
3) the .texi file has DOS line endings, and this generates an xboard.info with
DOS line endings, which in turns breaks our version of install-info.
4) xboard: Can't open bitmap file /usr/share/games/xboard/bitmaps.xchess/.108s.bm...using built-in
when no such file exists; there are n,b,r,q,p,k but no initial dot.
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