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[XBoard-devel] Time for a new release in master
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h.g. muller |
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[XBoard-devel] Time for a new release in master |
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Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:34:33 +0200 |
I think this would be a good point to do a new developer release,
(or at least prepare one by tying up any remaining loose ends).
The tournament function seems to completely work as intended now,
and is a major extension of the capabilities of XBoard.
The internationalization also seems to have settled down. I followed Tim's
advice to check wih "locale -a", and it turned out I had nothing but
English on my system. After installing nine other languages, I could
run German and Turkish, after I figured out I needed .utf8 as part of the
locale name. The others did not work, however. Are they disabled?
If so, how do I enable them, for testing?
There is a bad cosmetic problem if the menu bar gets wider than the
board. This problem is not specific to translatons; due to the menu
reorganization the English version also suffers from it in some sizes.
And I suppose it could be made to suffer in even more sizes by setting
a larger font size. Not sure what to do about it, but of course people
plagued by it can combat the problem by specifying a smaller font size.
The "tiny layout" solution of printing only the first character of each item
is also pretty ugly. So for now I simply want to leave it.
The tournament function and XBoard internationalization together represent
such a maor stride forwards, that we should perhaps consider releasing
them as 4.6.0, once we have had some more testing of it, and everything
we have now works to perfection.
- [XBoard-devel] Time for a new release in master,
h.g. muller <=