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The Winboard 4.4 thread is up since many hours, but none of the links there works!
Whats's wrong?

F.Huber wrote:The Winboard 4.4 thread is up since many hours, but none of the links there works!
Whats's wrong?

It seems hgm forgot to send me the files

It should be fixed soon.

Olivier

F.Huber wrote:Whats's wrong?

Under Construction!

But this board did not support a still larger font...

I just sent the installer files to Olivier, but he is watching France vs Romania now...

H.G.Muller wrote:Under Construction!

But this board did not support a still larger font...

I understand this as "this page is still under construction", but providing already links which don't work is not very userfriendly.

I just sent the installer files to Olivier, but he is watching France vs Romania now...

Well, if football is more important for him than chess, then I hope France will lose ...

F.Huber wrote:I understand this as "this page is still under construction", but providing already links which don't work is not very userfriendly.

This is why hard-hats are required on construction sites: they are not friendly places!

Ok, found it on your website in the meantime.

After a quick first test:
1) the file selection window still shows "Choose Book",
2) still no 'spin' type options,
3) although the new PG now sends correctly -string/-file/-path (something that you wanted Michel to implement!), WB does nevertheless not support it (all 3 options give a file selector)

Short conclusion: no difference to the last betas ...

Files uploaded

Olivier

Olivier Deville wrote:Files uploaded

Thanks!
And who has won? France or Romania?

F.Huber wrote:

Olivier Deville wrote:Files uploaded

Thanks!
And who has won? France or Romania?

1-1... a lousy result

Olivier

Only the (32-bit) binary Debian package for XBoard is missing now; I will compile that tomorrow. I will wait with announcements on other forums until I also have that. Perhaps we can get a volunteer to prepare an x64 Debian package, and also host that. Eventually Debian will host these packages, of course, and they will flow from there in the Ubuntu repositories. But I have no idea how long that will take.

Perhaps we can get a volunteer to prepare an x64 Debian package, and also host that

I usually distribute my sources with a .spec file and a debian directory. This makes it trivial to make binary packages.

For example in my polyglot sources you can just do

"make deb" or "make rpm" to get a binary package.

If you know what you are doing you can of course just run dpkg-buildpackage.

H.G.Muller wrote:Perhaps we can get a volunteer to prepare an x64 Debian package, and also host that.

I have several machines running 64-bit Ubuntu (a Debian derivative). Is that close enough, or does the package have to be built on unmodified Debian?

Ubuntu would be perfect. I guess most interest in it would come from Ubuntu users anyway. The 32-bit package that by now is on this website was prepared by me on an Ubuntu system as well. I basically just took the official Debian package for 4.4.0-alpha6, and replaced the executable and doc files with the most recent ones. (And the icon pixmap, as I do not like the icon they pach in so much.)