Pasting an XGID into GNUBG XG has a bug pertaining to its command File-> Export-> Position to clipboard.
One of the check boxes allows users to put the "Player on roll always on bottom." When this box is checked, in cases where the top player is the dice owner, XG produces a board diagram that swaps the top and bottom players. The diagram is labeled incorrectly, however, with the XGID for the original position. To fix this bug, XG should produce a new XGID that corresponds to the swapped position, and export it along with the diagram. Although some may call this a feature, I call it a bug! It is very disconcerting to look at a position on the Internet, and then have it swapped around when pasted into my bot. I believe it is a mistake for GNUBG to "correct" this bug when an XGID is pasted into GNUBG. Let XG fix its own bugs! Consider that XG may correct this in a future release, and thereby require another fix for GNUBG. If GNUBG is going "fix" this XG bug, then, at the very least, GNUBG should display a confirmation dialog before swapping players. - Mike _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
