Merge branch 'NetHack-3.6'

.travis.yml

@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ matrix:
         - cp ../sys/winnt/Makefile.gcc ./Makefile
         - mingw32-make install
   exclude:
+#    - os: osx
+#      osx_image: xcode10.3
+#      env: DESCR=osx-xcode10.3-x11 HINTS=macosx10.14 WANT_WIN_CURSES=1 WANT_WIN_X11=1 USE_XPM=1
+#      compiler: clang
+#      script: "cd sys/unix/ && sh setup.sh hints/$HINTS && cd ../../ && make install"
     - os: osx
       osx_image: xcode10.2
       env: HINTS=macosx10.14
@@ -108,5 +113,6 @@ deploy:
   on:
     tags: true
   prerelease: true
- name: "Pre-release build of NetHack 3.6.3"
- body: "This is auto generated pre-release build of NetHack 3.6.3 and as such has not been tested."
+  name: "Pre-release build of NetHack 3.6.3"
+  body: "This is auto generated pre-release build of NetHack 3.6.3."
+

README

@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
-                NetHack 3.6.2 -- General information
+         NetHack 3.6.3 work-in-progress -- General information
 
 NetHack 3.6 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack,
 which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of
 NetHack 3.4 as there was no NetHack 3.5 release.
 
-NetHack 3.6.2 contains a collection of about 320 bug fixes to NetHack 3.6.1
-and more than 20 enhancements. The file doc/fixes36.2 in the source
-distribution has a full list of them. The text in there was written for the
-development team's own use and is provided  "as is", so please do not ask us
-to further explain the entries in that file. Some entries might be considered
-"spoilers", particularly in the "new features" section.
+NetHack 3.6.3 work-in-progress is not an official release of NetHack. It 
+currently contains a collection of over 140 bug fixes to NetHack 3.6.2
+and more than 16 enhancements and community contributions. The file 
+doc/fixes36.3 in the source distribution has a full list of them. 
+The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is
+provided  "as is", so please do not ask us to further explain the entries
+in that file. Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in
+the "new features" section.
 
 Below you will find some other general notes that were not considered
 spoilers:
-* Performance optimizations with tty including the ability to do per field 
-  updating
-* sys/winnt/nttty performance improvements mainly through the introduction
-  of a back buffer approach
-* a couple of windows crash bug fixes
-* adoption of the curses window port that was in use in the community
+
+* Over 30 refinements to the curses window port.
+* Some refinements to status highlights.
+* A couple of fixes to prevent potential game crashes.
 
                         - - - - - - - - - - -
 
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ Please read items (1), (2) and (3) BEFORE doing anything with your new code.
 
 If you have problems building the game, or you find bugs in it, we recommend 
 filing a bug report from our "Contact Us" web page at:
-    https://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html or
-    http://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html
+    https://www.nethack.org/common/contact.html
 Please include the version information from #version or the command line
 option --version in the appropriate field.
 
@@ -167,6 +166,6 @@ In our own patches, we will assume that your code is synchronized with ours.
 
                   -- Good luck, and happy Hacking --
 
-# $NHDT-Date: 1557077369 2019/05/05 17:29:29 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.55 $
+# $NHDT-Date: 1572309271 2019/10/29 00:34:31 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.57 $
 # Copyright (c) 2012 by Michael Allison
 # NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.

src/options.c

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	options.c	$NHDT-Date: 1572070255 2019/10/26 06:10:55 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.381 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	options.c	$NHDT-Date: 1572303730 2019/10/28 23:02:10 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.383 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Michael Allison, 2008. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -6047,9 +6047,6 @@ int which_set;
     int val;
     char *op, *symname, *strval;
     struct symparse *symp;
-#ifdef DEBUG
-    int sym_max = SYM_MAX;
-#endif
 
     if ((op = index(opts, ',')) != 0) {
         *op++ = 0;