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 _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-chess mailing list Bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-chess