Re: [XBoard-devel] when to release 4.4.1?

[Eric Mullins]

Arun Persaud wrote:
> seems like we are getting some good bug-reports in lately and also
> fixing a lot of them... nevertheless I would like to get the next
> version out of the door soon... what do you all think about releasing
> 4.4.1 on the weekend and then moving on to 4.4.2? Or do you rather wait
> until we have more bugs fixed... I would rather release early and often,
> especially since we had some bigger bugs in 4.4.0.
>   


Although I said earlier I was ready for release, that was before I got 
involved with the ICS line wrapping bug.  At this point I want to finish 
that up.

Done:
  * Automatic server width updates based on client width changes.  
[both xboard and winboard, in git already]
  * get_term_width() [xboard only] in preparation for dealing with the 
bug report.  This function returns the number of columns the xterm 
has.[in git already]
  * wrap routine implemented and working, but not complete -- see below 
[not in git]
  * rewrote the joining routine to fix bugs when used with timeseal.  
Occasionally, timeseal's buffer would fill up in the middle of the 
continuation sequence, causing matching of the sequence to fail, and 
thus not joining those lines.  As part of this, I saw no need for the 
FICS ivar nowrap being set nor the ICC var wrap being clear, so I 
removed those since they were specific to certain servers.  All that was 
for was to bypass the joining problem that's now fixed. [not in git]

Not done:
  * option for custom continuation sequence when we wrap the lines 
[intended for xboard and winboard]
  * finish wrap routine -- must add code to deal with words longer than 
the width, need to ignore ANSI color sequences when calculating the length
  * I want windows users to benefit from this.  It mostly works in 
windows, except that there's no equivalent routine to get_term_width() 
yet.  An added complication is properly handling colorized text which 
can be bold, thus wider than regular.  windows uses font attributes 
instead of just ANSI color sequences.  should be doable, but as yet 
isn't done.
  * option to allow users to fix the wrap width to some number instead 
of the actual terminal size.  The reason for this is if they want to be 
able to see ASCII art  properly on FICS where people set up their finger 
notes using long sequences of spaces to get stuff to line up.  Obviously 
that tactic doesn't work unless the wrap function splits at the right spot.

Beyond that, I really would like to take a crack at adding the 
gnu-readline and history functionality into xboard.  That is such a much 
needed feature, that I envision xboard people upgrading just for that 
alone.