Re: [XBoard-devel] xboard pixmaps from Eric De Mund

[h.g. muller]

Eric's pixmaps are useful, as they can still be used in currrent XBoard. 
Especially
because of the existence of projects like this I think we should not give
up support for pixmaps in future versions.

But that's about all we should do. I don't think it would be a good idea 
(or even
doable) to include all Chess graphics developed in formats that XBoard or
WinBoard can use with any distribution. I even have doubts about the 
feasibility
to distribute a list of all compatible Chess pixmaps or true-type fonts with
XBoard / WinBoard. Just like we do not distribute lists of WB-compatible 
engines.

H.G.

At 19:38 3-5-2009 -0700, Tim Mann wrote:
> Eric De Mund sent me the attached emails a while back.  I didn't do
> anything about them at the time, and have just noticed them still
> sitting in my mailbox.  I still haven't looked at the pixmaps and don't
> know if they would be interesting given the changes being made to xboard
> and WinBoard, but thought I should at least forward the mails to the
> developer list now that there are folks actively working on
> xboard/WinBoard.