Re: GNU Chess 5 maintenance

[Stuart Cracraft]

I want to publically thank Simon Waters for leading the effort of maintenance
of GNU Chess. 

---- Simon Waters <address@hidden> wrote: 
> Couple of recent issue, such as not building with GCC v4, and comments
> from Ethan Burns on protocol compliance have me back digging around in
> the code after a longer than expected break (sorry about that).
> 
> I intend to modify the program such that it doesn't make unnecessary
> chatter when "--xboard" is passed as an option, and that it relies less
> on idioms that happen to work with Xboard/Winboard, and complies more
> closely with the engine interface as specified by Tim ($Id:
> engine-intf.html,v 2.1 2003/10/27 19:21:00 mann Exp $).
> 
> Currently I don't plan for any backward compatibility, i.e. any programs
> relying on these idioms, rather than merely allowing it, will likely
> break with release of 5.08.
> 
> The thinking "extension" mentioning in the specification, where GNU
> Chess can denote various points in its thinking will remain (at least
> till changes in search make it obsolete).
> 
> I have 71 emails pending with various bugs, or enhancement features, and
> 29 relating to documentation issues, most of these will probably not
> result in changes as they are duplications or clarifications. Please let
> me know if there is anything outstanding you think I may not be aware of.
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
>  Simon