[Bug-gnubg] More or less unresolved problems before an upcoming release

[Christian Anthon]

Hi All,

I believe that we should get a new release out reasonably soon. So I'm
listing the problems I now of and ask for others to do the same.

a) the new relational code is somewhat untested, but more or less works.

b1) the multi threaded code works now, but could do with a bit more testing.
b2) sometimes the mt rollout gets too many trials for some candidates
and I'm not sure if quasi-random dice works correctly.
b3) the activity bar doesn't work correctly when multithreaded

c1) clicking on the 3dboard doesn't always work, especially bad under
vista with radeon mobility graphic cards, but I'm suffering from the
same problem under Linux. The problem is that the pieces are redrawn
to check if they have been clicked and that takes up to 1sec under
windows vista with aforementioned cards. I'm not sure if it's needed
to redraw the pieces, seems to work fine without.
c2) the appearance settings crashes under Linux with 3d window
managers. I have a work around for the problem, but I'm not even sure
why it works. It's basically a gtkglext problem, but since that lib
isn't actively maintained, we don't know when it will be fixed.

Christian.