Re: gnuchess does not honor --version and --help

[Simon Waters]

Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> The --help and --version flags are expected of all GNU programs
> nowadays.  It's quite inconvenient that none of them work, and that
> either of them gets just silently ignored by the program.

I'll ensure they are in 5.06.
 
> Especially, a reliable means of finding out the inxtalled gnuchess
> version is needed.  Gcompris currently needs to ensure that version 5
> or later is installed, but does not have a clean way to do that.

GNU Chess 5, reports version string on starting, and implements
a "version" command, although I appreciate it may be too late at
those points.