[Bug-XBoard] Random Thoughts To Get The Discussion Going

[Mark Ioli]

To start a new thread along the lines of what Daniel and I had started 
talking about...

I wanted to throw out some questions/ideas just to see what everyone's 
thoughts were (well, all 3 of us so far anyway) regarding 
XBoard/WinBoard ToDos:

1. Should WinBoard be made an MDI application? (Large hunk of work, I know.)

2. Right now there are a few things inplemented in either X/WinBoard but 
not the other. To what extent should we strive to have identical 
features in both? Some things which may be easy to implement in a 
Windows GUI might not be so easy or even look the same when duplicated 
in X, and vice versa. Of course that may just be my lack of experience 
with Tcl/Tk talking. (This will ultimately lead to a question of whether 
each should be a separate application, different versioning, etc.)

3. CMail has always been an XBoard only thing, do you think it would be 
worthwhile to port it to WinBoard? I've never been a correpondence 
player, so I'm not sure how much demand there is for it.

4. An obvious one: what should our priorities be? Code cleanup, i.e. 
breaking the files into smaller pieces, before going forward on new 
features? This might help to make the GUI pieces easier to work with, 
and of course less chance of stepping on each other's toes.

Just a few for now, I'd like to hear what you think, especially 
regarding priorities.

Mark