Re: [XBoard-devel] 4.4.0 issues

[h.g. muller]

> Probably not.  I don't usually iconify when I need to mute it.
> Sometimes I need to mute when involved in a game.  In that case, I most 
> definitely can't iconify!

OK, clear. This seems such a common function that it deserves to be in a 
main menu, like Flip View.
So I added an item to toggle global muting near the top of the Options menu.
When the Options -> Sounds... dialog is OK'ed, muting is automatically 
switched off.
Pressing "Play" in this dialog overrules any muting, and always plays the 
seected sound.

All this stuff sits in the front-end, (winboard.c, woptions.c, 
winboard.rc), so for now this is a
WinBoard-only feature. A winboard.exe that implements it can be downloaded 
from:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/winboard.zip

> I've seen it a couple more times since then.  But I don't have any 
> additional information about why it's happening, so I haven't mentioned 
> it.  I never click twice-- I always drag to make the move.

OK, so it is drag & drop moving, in XBoard.

A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of the protocol 
extensions:
XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the engine in stead of "egtpath" from 
the protocol specs.
After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better than 
the egtbpath I originally
had proposed, and I changed it accordingly, but I had not realized that 
this string occurred TWICE
in backend.c, depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats 
option.
So I only changed the first occurence.

I consider this is so bad that it calls for an immediate release to correct 
it. The question is, what
exactly should we release? Should we simply make it a 4.4.0a where we 
removed the offending 'b'?
Should we put in the other bugfixes we found so far? (The signed char bug 
might be bad on
some platforms.) Or should we go to 4.4.1 with all the new features I added 
since 4.4.0
(mainly to WinBoard: the chat windows and the result-comments field in the 
game list.)
Or should we release the bugfixes as 4.4.1, and give the new features 
somewhat more time
to be beta-tested, and release those only in 4.4.2?