Re: [XBoard-devel] WinBoard sources missing

[Tim Mann]

Hmm, why aren't we including the WinBoard-only sources in the tarball
too?  I don't see a reason to remove them.  Arun?

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:53:36 +0100, "h.g. muller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see that the source tar ball we now offer from the GNU download section
> is not the same as the one in the git repository, but is now completely
> cleansed of WinBoard sources. I had not really planned on distributing
> sources from the WinBoard forum, so people that were looking for them
> are now looking in the wrong place, and complaining about it.
> 
> Perhaps in the WinBoard section of the GNU home page we should refer
> them directly to the git repository for sources; I agree that thre is no
> suggestion made anywhere that the XBoard download should also
> contain WinBoard sources, but as this is what people are used to
> for the past decade, so they will look there anyway, and only discover
> their error after downloading the tar ball in vain. So a warning on the
> Home page that WinBoard sources are not included might prevent
> a lot of unnecesary internet traffic.
> 
> As an aside: I see now that the Shogi bitmaps are included in the root of
> the tar ball (and have thus ended up in the XBoard-only distribution),
> while these are simply duplicats of those in the winboard/shogibitmaps
> directory. They are not used in building XBoard, and even have the wrong
> format for that. (They are Windows .bmp files.)
> 
> If we want to distribute Shogi pixmaps with XBoard, we should at least
> run the converter on them. But as they are not include in the build
> (and there is little need for that, because XBoard allows loading of
> external pixmaps), I don't think we really have to do that.
> 
> 


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