- XBoard, playing some Chess variant
-
- XBoard, playing some Chess variant
-
+ XBoard GTK build, playing some Chess variant
+
- WinBoard, configured with marble board
+WinBoard, configured with marble board
Sources of current stable version can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ (via http) and @@ -93,54 +101,50 @@ possible.
Precompiled versions are available for openSUSE -and debian-squeeze +and debian-sid (if you know of other distribution that package it, please let us know).
+We regularly do so called 'developer releases', which include the newest and the latest we are working on. If you want to help us test, or just want to use the new features, you might prefer to use those over the stable version.
-At the Open Build Server we provide packages that can be installed in parallel to the normal xboard version. To do this the programs are renamed to xboardnext (latest from the v4.6.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 14, Fedora 15, Mandriva 2010, Mandriva 2010.1, RedHat RHEL 5, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 11.3, opensuse 11.4, opensuse Tumbleweed, opensuse Factory, Ubunut 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04.
+At the Open Build Server we provide packages that can be installed in parallel to the normal xboard version. To do this the programs are renamed to xboardnext (latest from the v4.7.x branch in git) and xboardgit (latest version from the master branch in git). Packages are available for: Debian 6.0, Fedora 17/18, RedHat RHEL 6, opensuse 12.1/12.2/12.3/Tumbleweed/Factory, Centos 6, Arch, Ubunutu 10.04/12.04/12.10. These packages are generated automatically and are for testing purposes only. Please let us know if you have any problems related to XBoard or package dependencies.
-Windows builds of development version can be found at HGM's web page. +
Windows builds of development version can often be found at HGM's web page. - -
Furthermore we provide two development versions (tagged commits in git):
+Furthermore we provide development versions (tagged commits in git):
After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar ball, -run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.
+ The git repository is available on Savannah. All branches can be viewed there. The web page also provides tar-balls of all tagged versions, these tar-balls are different from the ones that you can download from the ftp-server and you will need to run ./autogen.sh on them as described below.
If you want to get a copy of the repository you can clone it using the command "git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/xboard.git". For more information on how to use git, please visit the git home page.
Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.
+ After cloning the git-repository or downloading and unpacking a snapshot tar-ball from the git repository,
+run ./autogen.sh, ./configure and then make and make install.
Unpack the tar ball and do ./configure followed by make and make install.
For development sources and other information, please see the XBoard project page at savannah.gnu.org.
-A snapshot of the latest source code for all branches is available at -the git -repository on Savannah.
-You can also find an archive of old versions on the ftp server.
@@ -340,7 +344,7 @@ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README for information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article. -Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This page is licensed under a Creative @@ -348,7 +352,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Updated: -$Date: 2012/03/01 17:31:17 $ +$Date: 2014/10/18 05:15:05 $