Re: [Bug-gnubg] Cannot start.

2018-02-02 Thread Michael Petch
On 2018-02-02 14:16, Philippe Michel wrote: > This is not necessarily the cause of the crashes, but this is > unexpected. I don't think there is anything in the (limited) changes > between 1.05 and 1.06 to this part of the code to deliberately do this. > This must be a side effect of

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Cannot start.

2018-02-01 Thread Michael Petch
Philippe, I wonder if a debug build where assertions are turned on might be useful here? I could do such a build and make it a development release. On 2018-01-31 07:23, Norbert Jünke wrote: > Hi Guys, > when I would start Backgammon 1.06.001, then I can here a little bit > from the starting

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-12-22 21:08, Marcell Fulop wrote: > You are actually right. I never gave it long enough time before killed > the seemingly unresponsive gnubg process but after waiting about 2 > mins on a mid-2012 MacbookPro, it just started with XQuartz as it used > to work before. Thanks for trying it

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-12-22 19:59, Michael Petch wrote: > (which I believe doesn't use quartz > windows manager as a gtk+2 backend (at least by default) I meant to say: (which I believe doesn't use Xquartz windows manager as a gtk+2 backend (at least by default) Xquartz is the x11/quartz back end.

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-12-22 17:47, Marcell Fulop wrote: > Did you do that with XCode? Can you share details of the this build please? Reading your response tells me a couple of things that we have done differently. You used Homebrew (which I believe doesn't use quartz windows manager as a gtk+2 backend (at

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-21 Thread Michael Petch
I've been able to build GNUBG 1.06.001 (from CVS) on MacOS High Sierra. I had to coerce it with similar options as Macports uses for the project. When it was finished and installed it seems to work fine. Some of the X11 artifacts seem to have been fixed as well (including some OpenGL errors). 3D

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-20 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-12-20 00:44, Marcell Fulop wrote: > Hi Micheal, > > That sounds great, thanks! As you can read here, 1.05.000 compiles > with --with-simd=no and --without-board3d and everything seems to be > in order, analyses bring the exact same results as those generated > with 1.04.000 Mac version

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg on MacOS High Sierra

2017-12-19 Thread Michael Petch
I'm installing High Sierra on one of my older Macs and will see if I can find out what i causing these issues. I don't intend to creat DMGs anymore, but *if* we can find a solution getting fixes in place so it can be installed via Macports would be my preference. This is a big *if*. At this point

[Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.06.001 Released (Binaries for MS Windows available)

2017-12-18 Thread Michael Petch
Howdy all, I have generated a new source tar ball that is available here: http://files.gnubg.org/media/sources/gnubg-release-1.06.001-sources.tar.gz The MS Windows installer can be found here (and is available from the Download page at www.gnubg.org):

Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa

2017-08-18 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-08-18 07:53, Mario Bozeglav wrote: > > anyone serious BG player can see the random dice generator is a myth. > anyone who plays GNU-BG with manual dice entry can see that the results > are VERY different than when playing with the supposedly "random" generator. > Thank for the

Re: [Bug-gnubg] linux

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Petch
> > But in no way can this alone explain such a large discrepancy. The > Ubuntu package must use some more onerous compilation options. > I haven't looked but I suspect it likely has to do with the default compile options for packages that newer versions of Ubuntu uses. Options for Strong stack

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Threaded rollouts and RNGs

2017-02-07 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-02-07 15:34, Philippe Michel wrote: > Moreover, the UI is quite fragile since one can set the rng to something > not thread-safe like "file" or "random.org". The defaut mersenne rng is > ok, though. With it, for a given position and seed, the result is the > same for any numbers of

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnubg mac bug

2017-01-22 Thread Michael Petch
On 2017-01-22 19:20, Richard Gorton wrote: > It seems to work fine but occasionally the game freezes. None of the buttons > respond and I cannot restart/quit gnubg from its menu. I have to abort the > game and quit Xquartz and start again. > > Is there any fix or way to restart it, or

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNU backgammon

2016-11-06 Thread Michael Petch
On 2016-11-06 11:26, zahra Qasemi wrote: > GNU backgammon is an open source project,but i cant find the game code > anywhere.even in the fsf.org . > Im an amateur python programmer and need GNU backgammon game code in > python for a university project. > I shoud implement these

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Problems opening GNUBG on a Mac

2016-11-01 Thread Michael Petch
I don't have time to install the new OS, but GNUbg has been in Macports for some time. You should be able to easily build a version that runs until that time official GNUbg DMGs are released. On 2016-10-31 12:21, David Klausa wrote: > I recently updated my OS to Sierra 10.12 and now when I try to

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg website down?

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Petch
On 2016-07-17 2:37 PM, Superfly Jon wrote: > I'm getting a proxy error... > > Jon > My bad, there was an IP address change. Can you try it again? ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNU Backgammon

2016-06-15 Thread Michael Petch
Howdy, On 2016-06-14 10:30 AM, Sharon Flax Waddington wrote: > > I have seen comments about android, but can't find the link to download. > Could you possibly send me a link? > > There is an Android version based upon GNUbg that can be found here:

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg-1_05_000 flagged as threat

2016-06-08 Thread Michael Petch
Nothing is up. The "Reputation" threat isn't actually a virus threat. It is because our product has a niche market and doesn't get thousands of downloads. No virus is present. If you go to a site like virustotal.com you'll discover that Norton is the only one that will flag it. It is safe.

[Bug-gnubg] New 1.05.002 SOURCE CODE release

2016-06-08 Thread Michael Petch
a tarball of the latest source code at: http://files.gnubg.com/media/sources/gnubg-release-1.05.002-sources.tar.gz Michael Petch ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNU Backgammon 1.05.000-mingw 32-Bit 20150725, plain text output problem

2016-03-22 Thread Michael Petch
roblems. > > I am running Windows 7 Starter SP1 > > Thank you for providing such a wonderful software application > -- Were you loading them in notepad? (notepad is braindead when it comes to end of line characters). Have you tried loading it with Windows wordpad? -- Michael P

Re: [Bug-gnubg] A couple of fairly minor GnuBG fixes

2016-01-26 Thread Michael Petch
g tree (I'm one of the upstream maintainers of that file in the autoconf archives). -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https:

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg on osx 10.11

2015-11-28 Thread Michael Petch
l not run from any location other than from /Applications . -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] mac 10.11.1

2015-11-17 Thread Michael Petch
an issue I'll look at installing El Capitan and produce a new release. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Windows 10

2015-11-02 Thread Michael Petch
work I'd recommend trying to disable your antivirus temporarily (and then re-enable it after0. this is just to see if anti-virus is causing a problem on your system. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 4

Re: [Bug-gnubg] bad __attribute__ handling breaks w/newer standards, newer gcc, & glibc and causes infinite loop

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Petch
NPRO_C # define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty */ # endif #endif It seems to also handle Sun compilers as well. Anyone have any objections to the latter solution? -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] bad __attribute__ handling breaks w/newer standards, newer gcc, & glibc and causes infinite loop

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-10-07 15:30, Michael Petch wrote: > #ifndef __attribute__ > # if (defined __GNUC__ \ > && (2 < __GNUC__ || (__GNUC__ == 2 && 96 <= __GNUC_MINOR__))) \ > || defined __SUNPRO_C && 0x5110 <= __SUNPRO_C > # define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty

Re: [Bug-gnubg] bad __attribute__ handling breaks w/newer standards, newer gcc, & glibc and causes infinite loop

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-10-07 16:32, Michael Petch wrote: > Scrap this since Bison's original code technically isn't redefining > __attribute__ but declaring YY_ATTRIBUTE that may use __attribute__ (or > not). > I could modify it to do it as Russ suggests, but there may be another way. Autoconf

Re: [Bug-gnubg] bad __attribute__ handling breaks w/newer standards, newer gcc, & glibc and causes infinite loop

2015-10-07 Thread Michael Petch
ou and I pretty much came up with a similar email within a few minutes. I too mentioned ax_c___attribute__.m4 as a solution. Then we define __attribute__ if it isn't defined in our code. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A

Re: [Bug-gnubg] (no subject)

2015-08-22 Thread Michael Petch
is reported (including the Norton(Symantec) Anti Virus Check). If you let me know which version I can put in a request to Norton (We have done it previously) to flag our download as legitimate. Thanks. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Building on Ubuntu 14.04 : Temporary Workaround

2015-07-27 Thread Michael Petch
level I use. If I remove all the std=c99 stuff from configure.ac that has been added then it seems to work fine no matter the optimization level. -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] ERROR MESSAGE

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Petch
version which can be downloaded here: http://files.gnubg.org/media/windows/gnubg-1_04_001-20141204-setup.exe If you use 1.04.001 you should not use random.org for dice generation since that feature is now broken in anything before 1.05.000. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

[Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.05 and compatibility with Windows XP SP3

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Petch
here: http://gnubg.org/media/windows/gnubg-1_05_000-20150725-setup.exe I have updated the webpages at www.gnubg.org to reflect this newer version. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Building on Ubuntu 14.04 : Temporary Workaround

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Petch
() being called. The error you see under Ubuntu 15.04 is actually the same thing I see on 14.04 depending on the optimization level I use. If I remove all the std=c99 stuff from configure.ac that has been added then it seems to work fine no matter the optimization level. -- Michael Petch CApp

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Building on Ubuntu 14.04

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Petch
that with: sudo apt-get build-dep gnubg sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev The second line makes sure you have the dependency for random.org to function properly as a dice source. Then do: make clean ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install and then run ./gnubg -- Michael Petch GNU

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Building on Ubuntu 14.04

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Petch
investigate this weekend if I have a chance. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: [Bug-gnubg] compile error under windows

2015-07-18 Thread Michael Petch
Thanks, I'll correct that with the installer. I hadn't noticed it previously. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnubg] installing GNUbg in Yosemite. Xquartz; command line syntax to enable/disable Xquartz over X11.

2015-07-18 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-07-18 10:11 AM, Michael Petch wrote: Open up the GNUbg DMG and you MUST drag the gnubg.app to your /Applications . Failure to drag the App there will make it fail for certain. Once gnubg.app (in the DMG) is dragged to /Applications folder you can lauch it from /Applications like any

Re: [Bug-gnubg] installing GNUbg in Yosemite. Xquartz; command line syntax to enable/disable Xquartz over X11.

2015-07-18 Thread Michael Petch
/Applications like any other application. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] compile error under windows

2015-07-18 Thread Michael Petch
. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Two similar install, one not working

2015-07-10 Thread Michael Petch
editor to modify gnubg.x11 . In that file replace all occurrences of: Gnubg.app with gnubg.app Notice the G is being changed from uppercase to lower case. You can launch a simple text editor from the command line with: nano /Applications/gnubg.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/gnubg.x11 -- Michael Petch GNU

Re: [Bug-gnubg] re FIBS

2015-06-28 Thread Michael Petch
. Guido has also contributed to GNUbg. I've worked with him to fix some problems in GNUbg that he encountered while doing development on his products. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

[Bug-gnubg] Test Message Please Ignore

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Petch
Nothing important ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Confused

2015-06-15 Thread Michael Petch
optimistic that over a greater number of positions the trend would hold in bot play. This post (and the thread in general) of Philippe's may give you a better idea: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnubg/2012-06/msg00032.html -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

Re: [Bug-gnubg] latest gnubg does not start in gui mode.

2015-06-13 Thread Michael Petch
gettext-devel glib-devel gmp-devel gnuplot gtk2-devel gtkglext-devel info libcanberra-devel libpng-devel pango-devel python-devel readline-devel sqlite-devel You will also need to have OpenGL if you want 3D. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Confused

2015-06-12 Thread Michael Petch
comparison to the other data in Depreli's Bot Comparison — 2012 Update which can be found in the first link I gave. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.05.000 and dependencies for downstream maintainers

2015-04-26 Thread Michael Petch
to build with Debians libcurl4 development files. I didn't spend much time on it, but as I recall I didn't see a curl-config present. I may be mistaken and I didn't really look it at that hard, and it may not have been as it seems. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.05.000 and dependencies for downstream maintainers

2015-04-26 Thread Michael Petch
safe than sorry at the time. Much appreciated. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Only plays match

2015-04-22 Thread Michael Petch
there is a money (dollar) icon next to the list of points to play to. That represents money sessions. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug

[Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.05.000 Released (Binaries for MS Windows available)

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Petch
. There is also a change to fix import and export of variants (Hypergammon etc) when using MAT file format. There are a variety of other minor bug fixes an cleanup. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

[Bug-gnubg] GNUbg 1.05.000 and dependencies for downstream maintainers

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Petch
. If you don't have the requisites installed for this feature you will get a pop up box saying so. Although this feature is optional, I do recommend adding the dependency to stay feature complete with your past builds. Thanks -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

Re: [Bug-gnubg] REQ - Auto-analyse then auto-add each match to database

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Petch
SQL queries on. We can it add it to the list of features being requested. No guarantee of if/when it will be done. Although at one point I recall seeing a version that analysed matches when it was over. I can't seem to figure when/where I saw that. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer

[Bug-gnubg] Fwd: Correction on my previous mail about pasting

2015-04-19 Thread Michael Petch
Forwarded Message Subject:Correction on my previous mail about pasting Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:39:05 +0200 From: Lucas lgpauw...@hotmail.com To: Michael Petch mpe...@gnubg.org I wrote There should be a game in progress to set the dice (when the dice

[Bug-gnubg] Fwd: Copy Past an ID

2015-04-18 Thread Michael Petch
Forwarded Message Subject:Copy Past an ID Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:46:44 +0200 From: Lucas lgpauw...@hotmail.com To: Michael Petch mpe...@gnubg.org, Philippe Michel philippe.mich...@sfr.fr When I past a positionID (GnubgID) GnuBg tells There should

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Hi

2015-04-17 Thread Michael Petch
/local/bin/gnubg -w The -w is usually important when running from the desktop so that it suppresses the terminal output. Failure to do this with desktop/menu shortcuts can lead to GNUBG not loading properly. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Adware in my gnubg

2015-03-27 Thread Michael Petch
. Virus and Malware detection is not an exacting science so they can get it wrong sometimes. If you can get back to me with the information requested it would help me look into it further, but as it stands things seem fine. Thanks for your email! -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Using OSX, cant run GNUBG

2015-02-23 Thread Michael Petch
to resolve some things with the GNUbg application so the first time it is loaded it will load slow. Let me know how you make out. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] help with ubuntu installation

2015-02-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-02-16 6:23 PM, motiv4u wrote: It would be nice to replace http://gnubg.org/index.php?itemid=100 with this. Good tutorial. But that would be too easy ;-) When I get a chance I'll have to clean it up a bit and put it up there. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer

Re: [Bug-gnubg] help with ubuntu installation

2015-02-16 Thread Michael Petch
properly. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] code problem

2015-02-06 Thread Michael Petch
? -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] New MS Windows development(test) build (1.05.000-dev1) - Issues with XP

2015-01-20 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-20 8:17 PM, Michael Petch wrote: Howdy all, I have completed the migration of the build environment for MS Windows to a more modern MSYS2/MinGW32 environment. Originally I was using a hacked environment based on MSYS/MinGW32 . Some bad news. It seems that the developers of GLIB

[Bug-gnubg] New MS Windows development(test) build (1.05.000-dev1)

2015-01-20 Thread Michael Petch
also added -ffast-math as a compiler option. At some point in the next month I'll publish a zip file of the msys2/MinGW32 build environment so people can more easily roll their own builds (I did this with the previous MinGW builds) -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Some questions about build options and toolchain

2015-01-17 Thread Michael Petch
on some of this. Russ has been a big asset to our product over the years. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https

Re: [Bug-gnubg] MS Windows / Multi-Threading / Code simplification

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
that are likely related to why they work differently. Maintaining multiple code paths already seems to be an issue. I am just suggesting we eliminate one of the code paths if it doesn't really work and may be of limited value in keeping. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

Re: [Bug-gnubg] MS Windows / Multi-Threading / Code simplification

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
+) and Python3 for quite some time. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GTK3

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 4:03 PM, Philippe Michel wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Michael Petch wrote: If one looks closely at the the GTK code you'll also find it littered with #if (USE_GTKUIMANAGER) . This was to start migrating to GTK3 (was never finished). Those ifdefs are quite significant

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Simpler PRNG

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 4:18 PM, Philippe Michel wrote: For Oply, the discrepancy is smaller but the cost of random number generation is still negligible. This is what I gathered. Thanks! -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GTK3

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 4:47 PM, Michael Petch wrote: I have a version of the Game List pane where I removed GtkCList in favor of a number of GTKTreeView objects bundled into a pain Should have been: I have a version of the Game List pane where I removed GtkCList in favor of a number of GTKTreeView

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Simpler PRNG

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 4:57 PM, Philippe Michel wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Michael Petch wrote: I'm in agreement with Ian Shaw that a decrease in the options of random number generators is probably more ideal. If others wish to weigh in on this I am more than happy to listen. Available RNGs

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GTK3

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 6:01 PM, Michael Petch wrote: It seems that although the function was officially deprecated in 2.32.0, previous code bases started marking it as deprecated early. Looking at https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/plain/NEWS?id=2.31.2 . It says Deprecate GdkPixdata which

Re: [Bug-gnubg] GTK3

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-16 6:42 PM, Michael Petch wrote: This means we may have to check the GTK version in configure.ac and the Makefile.am so that the preprocessing to c source isn't done with 2.32.0. Then we'll have to install the image files into the appropriate installation locations. GNUbg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] The future of Windows builds / Https etc.

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Petch
development perspective. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

[Bug-gnubg] MS Windows / Multi-Threading / Code simplification

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Petch
MSVC tool chain. Thanks, -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Petch
odds it works. But I won't know until I get around to doing the next Mac builds. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Simpler PRNG

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Petch
of matches. I'm in agreement with Ian Shaw that a decrease in the options of random number generators is probably more ideal. If others wish to weigh in on this I am more than happy to listen. Thanks, -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715

[Bug-gnubg] Slightly OT: Java library to read XG/XGP file format

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Petch
with improving the basic class documentation. If someone finds bug or has questions I can be reached at mpe...@capp-sysware.com . -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-14 Thread Michael Petch
with the JSON API (limits that he felt may be too restrictive). Apparently he was considering using it via Java. Please see my next post as to why I'll set this idea aside for now. I appreciate the headsup on this python module! -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP

[Bug-gnubg] The future of Windows builds / Https etc.

2015-01-14 Thread Michael Petch
. It will be 2-3 weeks before I can get everything ironed out. I am busy with other things so I can't devote a lot of time to get this environment set up properly and changes to the code made right away. Thanks, -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D

[Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
have any other suggestions (beyond libcurl) or have any comments on this issue in general? I'd like to hear them before I look at producing a fix. Thanks, -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-13 11:17 AM, Michael Petch wrote: In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or with modified versions of it that use the same license as the OpenSSL library

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
be communicated to the downstream maintainers. So your view that it really is a non issue is not one I agree with. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
have to find a back end that actually will work under MingW. It just so happens that OpenSSL just works on Msys/Mingw which is why it would have been convenient. As for Macports which we use on OS/X I have already confirmed that one can build a gnutls variant. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
on the backend with a license that is compatible). -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Serious bug: Random.org - Important Request for Comments

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Petch
On 2015-01-13 4:27 PM, Michael Petch wrote: The end result of building binaries Thee are binaries we intend to publish (I am not talking about an end user building his own). -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] MacOS build: Convert GnuBG to use relative paths?

2015-01-10 Thread Michael Petch
the years. As it stands the official binaries won't be changing unless other people wish to do it. Making it absolute with in /Applications is much simpler from a maintenance/release standpoint. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnu on mac

2015-01-09 Thread Michael Petch
remember to open the DMG, drag the GNUbg app to /Applications. First time you run it wait a few minutes to ensure it has time to load properly. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Wrong luck adjusted result on Grandmaster analysis

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Petch
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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Mouse clicking becoming disabled

2014-12-28 Thread Michael Petch
Ubuntu releases */ /* #undef NO_OVERLAYSCROLLBARS */ If building with #define NO_OVERLAYSCROLLBARS 1 works then something that would be useful is to know what you get from these two commands: lsb_release -rs lsb_release -is -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Invert direction - bug / feature request + gnubg IDs

2014-12-19 Thread Michael Petch
personally prefer the combined form: GNUBGID DCBwdwcE8IE9Qw:cAng -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Invert direction - bug / feature request

2014-12-16 Thread Michael Petch
button, or a menu item in Options? Please let me know what you think and if you received this email successfully? Does using the Game menu and Swap Players option do what you are looking for? -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219

Re: [Bug-gnubg] wrong

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Petch
so it didn't care. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

Re: [Bug-gnubg] wrong

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Petch
cube. Compare: Single Game and Backgammon (2). Note the losing player and NOT borne off any checkers. http://www.bkgm.com/gloss/lookup.cgi?gammon -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] X11/mac yosemite

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Petch
. We created a version for Yosemite (and future) versions of OS/X. Try downloading the new version (1.04.000) for Yosemite from here: http://files.gnubg.org/media/macos/gnubg-1_04_000-mac-1010-x86_64.dmg Let me know if it works for you. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Copy ID to Clipboard uses old ID with colon

2014-11-01 Thread Michael Petch
was better. Question would be whether we should add an option to change this behavior? And if so is there a reason why the multiline form is preferred (ie. easier for a human to read). -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE

[Bug-gnubg] Updated OS/X Yosemite DMG - v1.04.000

2014-10-28 Thread Michael Petch
to SSE2/SIMD. -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg

[Bug-gnubg] New OS/X builds for MAC OS/X Yosemite and MS Windows - v1.04.000

2014-10-21 Thread Michael Petch
may have to go to System/Preferences and Security settings to allow GNUbg to run on your system. Please let me know if you have any problems / questions / concerns /helpo -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

[Bug-gnubg] OS/X: Interim solution to fix GNUbg on Yosemite

2014-10-19 Thread Michael Petch
. You should not have to start X11 manually. Please give me any feedback if this does or doesn't solve the problem satisfactorily. If it doesn't work I'll have to resolve the problem a different way. When I am confident a solution works I'll use it for the official release. -- Michael Petch CApp

Re: [Bug-gnubg] OS/X: Interim solution to fix GNUbg on Yosemite

2014-10-19 Thread Michael Petch
On 2014-10-19 6:51 PM, Michael Petch wrote: sudo curl www.capp-sysware.com/downloads/gnubg/gnubg.x11 /Applications/gnubg.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/gnubg.x11 I'm not sure if people's email reader will mess this up but it is all one line. But the command is all one line with a (greater than sign

Re: [Bug-gnubg] OS/X: Interim solution to fix GNUbg on Yosemite - FOLLOWUP - try again

2014-10-19 Thread Michael Petch
. Please be aware that it seems with each release of OS/X the first time you launch GNUbg (or update X11/Xquarts) it can take a few minutes. this seems to be getting progressively longer. It isn't GNUbg processing it is OS/X working under the hood with X11 stuff. -- Michael Petch CApp::Sysware

Re: [Bug-gnubg] MAT file bug

2014-10-11 Thread Michael Petch
on Sunday night @ 1.04.000 and produce a Windows build. I'm going to defer the OS/X build until I have a chance to look over issues with Yosemite. -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304

Re: [Bug-gnubg] can't open gnubg

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Petch
give me the link of the file you downloaded? -- Michael Petch GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 ___ Bug-gnubg mailing list Bug-gnubg@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

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