On Wednesday 27 February 2002 21:40, Tim wrote:
How about you merge your latest patch with the float-only version as you have planned, then I merge the float only version with Xfractint (I don't think this will be hard), and then we stop work on the integer versions, or at least make the "official" versions the float only versions. If anyone wants to continue to backport the further development to the integer version, they are welcome, but we would declare the main tree to be the float-only version.
I've already merged the float only version with Xfractint. It's at version 20.0 patch 11. There are some patches that will be difficult to incorporate, but bringing this source code up to the current version probably makes more sense than doing the work over again.
If you agree with that plan, then you would need to decide what to do with your allegro version. I never quite got that development environment to work, thouigh I can't say I tried too hard. I think the only way to keep the allegro work alive (for the time being) would be to get those changes merged with in the same way the Xfractint/Fractint versions are merged, by sharing the same source files. Once that merging was done, with the integer version behind us, we could go forward with a single set of patches.
Allegro is now at (or above) version 4.0, which came out late last year. The last time I updated their source code, the process went better than it had in the past. I haven't tried version 4 yet, although it is on my hard drive.
At some point we might actually using CVS :-)
Something else to learn. Yes, that would be good. I'd like to play with it from Iowa, but haven't gotten to it. Jonathan