Re: [XBoard-devel] WinBoard sources missing

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

h.g. muller wrote:
> 
>> Why don't we just call it 4.4.1, and 4.4.1.1?  This conforms with
>> windows versioning, and keeps everything numeric.
> 
> Well, we should perhaps make a distinction between new XBoard versions,
> and new packaging (tar balls or installers). The a, b, c is good for the
> package numbering.

I think a forth digit is a standard way to indicate small changes, e.g.
packaging...

> By studying the sources I discovered a bad bug, btw. I noted that
> pasing a FEN simulates the EditPosition menu, by calling
> EditPosition() and EditPositionDone(). I had not anticipated that.
> So I put code in EditPositionDone() to fake castling rights,
> as the user cannot enter those. But the faked castling rights
> now overwrite those of the FEN. This bug was masked in
> XBoard, but the wrog castling rights were sent to the engine.
> 
> If we make a new tar ball, shal we also put a new WinBoard in it,
> with a fix for this bug?

in that case we could also just call it 4.4.2 ;) 4.3.x went up to 16?
and I don't think that we will get a lot more than that and even if we
would it would be ok... no real reason to save version numbers...

ARUN