Re: [XBoard-devel] Development release

[Joshua Pettus]

Works beautifully!  Next release I’ll use XOP files instead of the shell 
scripts.

Thanks!
Josh

> On Mar 8, 2016, at 5:41 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Op Di, 8 maart, 2016 10:04 pm schreef Joshua Pettus:
>> I take it there isn’t a simple solution for the "End of File Error”
>> when playing on an ICS without the terminal emulator? That’s my only
>> gripe.
> 
> Oh, sorry. I checked this out in the code, and thought I saw this was
> already done. But that was only for the output to the xterm. Not for the
> input. And I had not actually tried it.
> 
> I pushed two more commits to hgm.nubati.net. (For some reason I suddenly
> cannot push to Savannah anymore; it complains I have no permission to
> unpack objects.) The last one suppresses the EOF-from-keyboard error when
> the ICS Chat window is up. I have now actually tested this, with the
> command
> 
> ./xboard -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icsUp true </dev/null >/dev/null &
> 
> This works, and allows me to log on to the ICS through the chat window.
> (Before the patch, or with -icsUp false it gave the EOF error.) It gives
> some error messages about invalid ioctl calls in the xterm, but apparently
> these are not fatal, and when there is no console at all I suppose the
> error messages cannot be seen either. (stderr would be closed.)
> 
>> All the rest looks great!  At least reading from the comments, Ill
>> have to try it all out.  :)
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 3:59 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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>>> I think this would be a good time for a development release, as
>>> preparation for 4.9.0. I seem to have tied up all loose ends. I synced
>>> with Savannah, and pushed everything there.
>>> 
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