Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:21:04 08/20/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 13:50:25, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >My question therefore is : how do you manage the different versions of your >program ? > >- Use a sophisticated version control program. Which are good for chess prog. >purposes ? I use CVS via sourceforget.net >- Safe all the source file before most any change and copy them back if there >wasn't an improvement (keep the code clean ?) If I want to do a total hack-up of some part of the code. >- Comment out (// ...) the new code if it turns out to be bad (never delete >ideas ?) Sometimes. Else keep the 'tried'/'to try' points in a seperate file. >- #ifdef it out ( you want to try again later ?) Same as above...handy if the code has comments in it ;) >Another organistational problem for me is with selftesting: when I want to play >some overnight test games I have the last stable version as blah.exe in one >folder and rename the new version to blah-beta.exe , copy it into my "beta" >folder and have winboard setup to play games between blah and blah-beta. >This can't be the most effective way ... Uh...it works fine by me but note that selftesting can give skewed results sometimes. -- GCP
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