Re: [XBoard-devel] WinBoard Installer

[Eric Mullins]

h.g. muller wrote:
> The http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/installer.zip now contains
> the most recent files of everything as I have it.
I downloaded this file.  Bear with me, it's the first time I've seen a 
gold-pack installation, so some of this may be old news.  But here are 
my thoughts:

Shortcuts: These almost work.  There's no icon, I presume because they 
are currently hardcoded to some path on your machine which doesn't exist 
on mine.  As your help file says, they 'adapt' after opening.

I don't think many users are going to find the solution-- they probably 
won't even consider opening the winboard installation directory with 
explorer.  So, I think the installer should build these at install time 
so they are accessible from the start menu, or can be placed on the 
desktop.   It's clear to me you work out of the winboard directory 
directly, which is kind of unusual for end users.

Additionally, I was getting an error with several shortcuts when 
exiting, pointing at 
"C:\cygwin\home\fboard\xboard44\installer\root\WinBoa" where the msgbox 
got cut off.  This is the result of it trying to save the PGN, there's a 
setting in winboard.ini that points there.  Is there some reason we need 
to ship winboard.ini?  Isn't it automatically generated using the 
defaults if not present?  In any event, the PGN save location must be 
changed-- very few are going to have a cygwin directory. Heh.

Aren't we going to ship the source code?  Maybe I'm mistaken, but I 
thought it came with 4.2.7.
> The http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard_4.4.0~hgm-2_i386.deb
> is now actually ~hgm-4, and includes the patch for the broken
> Engine #i Settings... menu I made last night. If you already copied
> an earlier ~hgm-2 to the GNU website, you hsould re-copy it.
I still do not have the commit for this.  As I am running AMD64, I 
actually need the fix and can not use an i386 .deb.