Re: Map drawing glitch in latest CVS snapshot

[Skeezics Boondoggle <skeezics at q7 dot com>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hans Ronne wrote:

> There is a much easier way. Use cvs -D date. Start with a date midway
> between September 02 and now. Build xconq and check if the bug is there.
> Then pick a second date between that date and one of the first two. And so
> on. Typically, a handful of checkouts (less than one hour of work) can
> pinpoint exactly when the bug first appeared.

Yeah, that makes sense.  I was hoping to maybe understand the code and 
just produce a patch :-) but if I can at least help pinpoint when things 
changed/broke, maybe that'll help.

> This is something only you (or somebody else with Solaris) can do. Without
> this information, there is little I can do. I made a large number of
> changes in the tcltk interface in the last few months, and it is impossible
> for me to tell which one of them causes problems under Solaris.

The updates are much appreciated - especially in the networking code.  On
those rare occasions when I can pull my son away from his whizzy 3D
multi-player shoot'em'ups to go a few rounds on the old Sparcstation (or
now with Apple's X11 available for MacOSX) it's fun to torture him with a
game that requires a little more thought, strategy and patience than the
typical twitchy FPS games so prevalent today.  He can whoop me at Quake3
but can't even come close at MazeWar... go figure. :-)  And xconq proves 
that "old age and treachery overcomes youth and skill."  Heh heh.

I'll post more info when I've had time to do some more test builds.

Cheers,

-- Chris