Fulvio, wtorek, 20 października 2009: >Michal Rudolf wrote: >> Such support is planned for ChessX (http://chessx.sourceforge.net) >> although it is nto ot implemented yet. Native database format will be >> implemented as SQLite database. > >I think that scid's best feature is it's database. >Compare it with chessbase: it have only three files and it is much >faster in searching games, positions and tree statistics. >It really should be the standard open chess database format, i don't >believe that an SQL implementation can be fast enough. > >In my view there are two major problem with current scid: >- license: is scid really GPL? Why in any source file there isn't the >usual GPL copying permission statement? I think there are some parts of code which are not GPL-ed (EGTB-handling code) but I may be mistaken.
>- tk/tcl: why c code (the one that really manage database) isn't >organized as a separate library with a clean documented interface? A >different program (like chessx for example) can read scid databases >simply linking to the library; using all scid features (tree search, pgn >import, game navigation, etc..) and concentrating on specific user >interfaces. This is easy to supggest it now, knowing that Scid was successful. Problem of many open source projects is that they evolve in a way not predicted at startup, often starting from a small application with a limited features. Now it will be quite complicated to move database handling part into separate C++ library. Such a project was started (NewScid) with an intention to combine C++ database library with Java GUI, but was abandoned, as it turned out to be too hard to do. -- Michal Rudolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
