Re: [Bug-XBoard] Please Help

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

> 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.

I had a quick look yesterday and this seems to be true, one relatively
big difference for example is internationalization support (well, not
that big, but it's all over the place). But I think it should be
doable... Anyway, better to do it now then wait longer ;)

I'm happy to work on the merging and gtk part of it. Will probably take
quite a while, but I should be able to do it unless H.G. puts in new
features faster than I need to merge the code :) One thing that would
probably help is if you (HG) take snapshots of your codebase more often
from now on, so that we can apply small diffs once we have a combined
version for winboard/xboard.

I also contacted FSF to get the paperwork for H.G. started and emailed
Allessandro.

Perhaps we should pump the xboard version to 4.5.x for including all
features from Savannah and HG and then to 5.x for upgrading to gtk (or
the other way around).

cheers
   ARUN