Re: [Bug-XBoard] Please Help

[Tim Mann]

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:53:21 +0200, "h.g. muller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure what exactly you have in mind. If you would add the features
> one by one by isolating the code changes and additions I made (assuming this
> could be done, which is probably already not the case), and putting those
> in the Savannah code, by the time the gap is completely closed, the Savannah
> code would have become identical to my code. So why not start from my code
> in the first place?

I'll just comment on this one paragraph.  Because Winboard_x forked off
from 4.2.7 (as I understand it) and you continued from there, there is
probably a fair amount of stuff in Savannah right now that's not in
your version.  Daniel Mehrmann did a bunch of work on merging changes
into Savannah that people had sent in and given us permission to use.
Unless you've picked that stuff up, or it's all subsumed by what you've
done, there would be some merging to do.  However, I imagine the merged
result would end up a lot closer to what you have than to what's in
Savannah now, because it sounds like you (and Alessandro) have done a
lot of work.  So it may be a better strategy to start with your version
and merge things into it instead of vice versa, but someone will have
to really look at the diffs to know for sure.

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Tim Mann  address@hidden  http://tim-mann.org/