🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3c156fbf.199258783@news.lafn.org>, Clifford Stern wrote:
> But why is this latest version so much bigger? It seems
> strange for merely a bugfix release:
> 
> winboard-4_2_3.exe    2,299,250 bytes
> 
> winboard-4_2_4.exe  10,020,579 bytes

It's a byproduct of upgrading the bundled GNU Chess 5 from 5.00 to
5.02.  The 5.02 release has a new book builder and comes with a large
file of PGN games to build the book from.  The book built from that
file ends up being over 12 MB.  I was a bit doubtful about including
it in the release, but ended up doing it anyway.  The alternatives
would have been to include 5.02 with no book, or to stay with 5.00 and
its tiny book.  The 5.00 book doesn't work with 5.02.

I think I'll make an alternative download available without the GNU 5
book, since 10 MB is a lot for someone with only dialup access to
download.  Maybe one of the GNU Chess 5 folks would like to make a
smaller book that I could include instead of leaving it out
entirely...?

-- 
Tim Mann  usenet@tim-mann.org  http://www.tim-mann.org/