Ben Hague wrote: Hi!
>> I could do it, the only thing I don't know about is how to >> handle ZIP in a simple transparent and portable way. I'd >> tend to call the commandline unzip that is freely available, >> but usually it's not there on a certain platform. > > Presumably it wouldn't be a big problem to include one of the freely > redistributable unzip programs in the scid package for a certain > platform, or possibly a VB Script? VB is windows only, and distribution unzip, well at some point we'll end up with a ready to run Linux CD just to run Scid. The canonical tool would just be unzip for ZIP, but people might think using other compression tools. >>> I agree. This would be really useful. But this is another >>> project ... >> Sure. I did not mean the Scid project to do it. But if there >> is a willing and skilled web programer arround... > > I did wonder about that, but it looks like it would be a pain for > whoever was responsible for keeping it up-to-date. I'm not sure about that. And it would have to be kept up to date only in one location which has a charming aspect. Setting up a nice web service/SOAP interface in front of it would avoid all trouble. Anyway, this is not a short term solution. > Instead what about > doing something similar, but with screen-scraping instructions rather > than the actual files? ? > E.g. something like: > <GameSource name="TWIC> > <URL>"http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic";</URL> > <Regex>"http:\/\/www\.chesscenter\.com\/twic\/zips\/twic\d+g > \.zip"</Regex> > <Type>ZIP</Type> > </GameSource> If I get you correctly you suggest a simple xml file with the necessary instructions to get the games and process them. This is what I had in mind. But, frankly, given the recent discussion about usabilty, which is mainly about some bitmaps and fonts, I don't think we have a majority if I tell the people that vi is a very nice gui for editing connector files of the above kind and that it is very easy, just set up the correct regexp. Especially, as Tcl seems a bit picky about escapes here as I recently learned. (I'd want a solution that allows this, but does not require it.) Given we agree that we want such a fetch function, which I feel is the case, your suggestion is the way I'll do it. I'd just supply the above connector for a bunch of sites. I'm not sure about the usage of XML for the connectors, however. (I think it would be good but it also rises deps for Scid). But I'd suggest to supply the connector defs via Scid probably add a fetch function which gets the file in question from the Scid website if needs be. Give me some time to work on this. It is all very similar to CC stuff from a certain point of view. I just worked on other areas today. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
