Re: [XBoard-devel] beta version

[h.g. muller]

I tend to agree: this version was meant as a merge only, not for adding ne 
features.
XBoard is still so far behind WinBoard that we easily could spend a year 
programming
to get it upto standards. We'd better resist that urge. I think what we 
have now is a very
clear improvement over what people are used to with 4.2.7. That should be 
enough.
(It must be stablle, though; 4.2.7 was stable...)

Furthermore, 'gift wrapping' xboard in a script seems a dead-end route to me.
There is nothing that you cannot do with shell scripts, sh is a recursive 
programming
language. But we don't want xboard to become a scripted GUI. If there is 
important
functionality that it lacks, we should implement it in the C code, not 
cloak it inscripting.