Re: [gnugo-devel] The late phase of the release cycle

[Arend Bayer]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Gunnar Farneback wrote:

> Dan wrote:
> > During this phase we want portability patches, bug fixes,
> > speed enhancements, and conservative tuning. Testing is
> > important. Experimental stuff can wait for a month or
> > so. Particularly, anything that's likely to break
> > something should not be submitted unless there's a very
> > good reason for it.
>
> One thing I'd like to resolve are the platform dependencies we've had
> indications of. As far as I know those have no valid reason and may
> indicate some subtle bug.

During my rewrite of the owl callback structure, I observed a noticeable
overlap between tests that were suspect to platform dependencies, and those
that were suspect to owl indeterminacy. I didn't yet look at it in detail,
but this suggests that there is still some problem with canonical sorting
of owl patterns.

Arend