Re: [Bug-XBoard] Please Help

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

> >ok... how about aiming for 4.4 to get all the changes from 
> Allessandro>and you in (in case we can get a hold of Allessandro) 
> and then for 5.0
> >to port everything to gtk and combine winboard and xboard.
> 
> I don't know what strategy the Savannah project was using before for
> stepping up the numbers, but the diffrence to the merging of 4.3.15
> and '4.2.7+' (the internationalized version is a so far unrealeased 
> one,correct? Perhaps we should refer to it as 4.2.8?) and the 
> existing 4.3.15
> will basically be only the internationalization. I.e., for the average
> (=Anglophone) user, no difference at all. So stepping up the 
> version number for this seems like overdoing it. 

There are quite a few changes in CVS at the moment... apart from 
internationalization there are new features (mousewheel support) and several 
bugfixes, I counted about 60 commits.

> That would even hold if we would use
> my current 4.3.16 alpha source as a basis for merging, [...]

H.G.: BTW how come you are at x.x.16? do you have a snapshot for all the 
version 1-16? that might help the merging process.

How about the following:

1) we release the code that is on savannah at the moment as 4.2.8.
2) add Allessandro's and your code as 4.3.x keeping the same version numbers as 
you have. Guess we just give them the same name (e.g. tag in CVS) and don't 
really release a compiled version, since there would be too many in a short 
time, but this way whenever people refer to say 4.3.14 we at least all talk 
about almost the same version...
3) do an official release of 4.3.15 (or perhaps 16 by then)

We would then end up with 4.3.15 which would be your 
code+internationalization+changes from 4.2.7->4.2.8. 
We then port to gtk and call it 5.0, since we get quite a few changes that come 
with gtk and only will have one codbase for both GUIs.

cheers
    ARUN