Re: [Scidvspc-users] originating code base for the project?

[Lionel <hay...@gm...>]

Ahhhh, thanks for the info.  That explains alot of what I've been 
encountering.  And oh, by the way, thanks for all the great work.

On 06/15/2017 05:02 PM, Steve A wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Lionel <hay...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> I've been tracking your project for some time and have been porting
> features from the scid project and adding some features of my own, and I'm
> wondering if you have a record of the scid commit from which you forked the
> scidvspc project.
>
> ScidvsPC's base is SCID-3.6.26, and full changelog can be found in the
> source code, README.txt, also here
> https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/HEAD/tree/README.txt.
>
> The files page https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/
> has scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz/download>
> dated at 4th/june/2009
>
>>From the SCID doc/ChangeLog file (still in ScidvsPC source code), 3.6.26
> appears to be dated October 2009, so it is possible i used a slightly
> earlier CVS version, but i can't recall. Perhaps that date is wrong too.
> SCID's CVS commits were not documented/labeled.
> Checking the scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz/download>
> tarball might clear it up, but i can't do that ATM.
>
> The first SCID release with widespread ttk theme changes (which really
> messed up the GUI imho) and made me fork was probably 3.6.27.
> In any case, afterwards, i separately applied the Tree interrupt and si4
> features, and definitely some other minor ones. I didn't use any VCS for a
> long while, just using patches - which maybe i still have, but are no
> longer on the files repo. CVS always struck me as very ordinary, but i
> eventually found out about subversion.
>
>> I ask because, as best as I can tell, you forked the project in 2010, and
> yet I've come across code which was committed to the scid project as far
> back as 2008 (and which is still in the latest revision of scid), but which
> is nowhere to be found in your repository.  For example, some functions
> which Pascal contributed in tcl/utils/validate.tcl which date back to 2008
> and were never removed from the scid project but never existed in your
> project.
>
> Cheers, Steven
>