Hi I just uploaded 4.4.3 and posted messages on several email lists and news groups. HGM: can you updated the winforum and contact debian? Tim: could you update freshmeat? I also updated the webpages, let me know if you run into some errors anywhere... cheers ARUN
Hi I just uploaded 4.4.3 and posted messages on several email lists and news groups. HGM: can you updated the winforum and contact debian? Tim: could you update freshmeat? I also updated the webpages, let me know if you run into some errors anywhere... cheers ARUN
OK, I built a WinBoard version of 4.4.3 and used it to replace the winboard.exe in the installer. I updated the links in the WinBoard forum download section to point to this new installer. I announced the release on TalkChess, WB forum and Rybka forum. I noticed the following, which escaped my attention before: The tarball contains a winboard/parser.c, while the makefiles expect it in ./parser.c. As I have flex installed, this is no problem: it just generates a new parser.c, and you have to pay really close attention to notice that it does. But it kind of defeats the purpose of including a parser.c in the tarball. A second point where I goofed is the Windows HTML help. The project file for this (winboard/help/winboard.hhp) still refers to completely different contents and index files than those in the tree. For me, those files are there, so i did not notice it. (Except that I changed one for this release, and the change did not end up in the index of the compiled help file.) But for others the files won't exist in the place where the project file specifies them. In fact a compiled .chm file is included in the tar ball. I guess I put it there myself, when I registered an enture directory for inclusion in git, but I am not sure if(Continue reading)
Hi here are some thoughts about the next versions of XBoard/Winboard. At the moment we have 3 branches: * 4.4.x (stable): mostly for bugfixing and perhaps small new features... * master: lots of new features, trying to close the gap between Winboard and Xboard * gtk: not usable yet For the next steps I would say we should perhaps do another 4.4.x release with only bugfixes, but mainly focus on unifying XBoard and Winboard and then branch 4.5.x from master. HGM already made a lot of changes towards moving things from Winboard to XBoard and the other way around... areas we still need to work on are for example * unifying the documentation and have everything in a .texi file (and generate windows compatible html-help files from there) or perhaps a RST file from where we can produce .texi and the windows html help files. * unifying key-bindings. Use standard gtk key-bindings for things like save, quit, preferences, so that users in 4.5.x won't have to change habits again when we move to gtk. Have windows and unix use the same keybindings for everything. * unify menu entries What do you all think? If people want to help out with any of this, or have other agendas they would like to see developed in XBoard/Winboard... let us know.(Continue reading)
At 12:00 5-4-2010 -0700, Arun Persaud wrote: >Hi > >here are some thoughts about the next versions of XBoard/Winboard. At >the moment we have 3 branches: > >* 4.4.x (stable): mostly for bugfixing and perhaps small new features... >* master: lots of new features, trying to close the gap between Winboard >and Xboard >* gtk: not usable yet > >For the next steps I would say we should perhaps do another 4.4.x >release with only bugfixes, but mainly focus on unifying XBoard and >Winboard and then branch 4.5.x from master. Well, if another 4.4.x release would be needed will be mainly determined by if we or others discover important new bugs. Lately not many new bugs have surfaced. Most bugs that were fixed in 4.4.3 were bugs related to the Chat Windows, which were a new feature in 4.4.1. >HGM already made a lot of changes towards moving things from Winboard to >XBoard and the other way around... areas we still need to work on are >for example > >* unifying the documentation and have everything in a .texi file (and >generate windows compatible html-help files from there) or perhaps a RST >file from where we can produce .texi and the windows html help files. Indeed, not having to duplicate or triplicate the effort of updating the help would(Continue reading)
Hi > Can you give me an overview of the standard GTK bindings? here are some for gnome: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en I don't think we will have a lot of overlap, but in case we have a similar entry, I think it wouldn't hurt to use the same shortcut and also the same acceleration key... since we will have lots of entries that are not common with other applications, perhaps it would be more important to avoid popular gnome keybindings, so that people don't get confused... Another way to go would be to look at some other chess programs and try to get similar keybindings as they do like scid for example. As far as saving files goes, I would think we should do ctrl-s for games and shift-control-s for positions and make that consistent everywhere... (think this is the way it is in Winboard already?) ARUN
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