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

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

On 06/15/2017 05:02 PM, Steve A wrote:
> he
> 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


For what it's worth...

After looking through the source tarball referred to above, and 
reviewing the scid repo history, I feel pretty confident that:

-- the scidvspc originating code base was collected prior to 2008-11-28, 
which is when Pascal made additions to tcl/utils/validate.tcl in the 
scid repo which do not appear in the scidvspc repo

-- Pascal did a massive import to the scid repo in June of 2008, and 
that import is very close to the tarball above, and includes an exact 
copy of tcl/utils/validate.tcl as it stands in the tarball and in the 
scidvspc repo today

-- the Changelog from the tarball indicates that scid-3.6.26 was 
released in Oct 2009, way after the two repos diverge... I find this 
date highly suspect

-- the only commits to the scid repo with reference to v3.6.26 are by A 
Wagner, and occur in October of 2008



Finally, thanks for hanging on to the originating tarball on the 
scidvspc project site... it will serve as a reliable source of common 
ancestors to divergent lineages in three way merges between the two 
projects.


-- Lionel