Hi In my opinion, TWIC is much more than just the - very nice - downloadable games! I think there are two ways to improve Scid's handling of these (games). 1. I would be helpful if Scid acquired the ability to import zipped pgn-files (that is not easily accomplished, but might be possible) 2. I would be extremely nice if Mark could be convinced to deliver the weekly pgn-files in gzipped form (.pgn.gz! They are directly accessible from Scid (at least under linux) and if it needs to be gunzipped, the default action is to replace the archive with the native form, avoiding unnecessary clutter.
of course a third way could be to convince Mark to deliver the games as a scid-database, only problem is that Scid has no official archive format. The fourth way might be to use the "official" compact pgn-format (.pgc), which absolutely no-one seems to have implemented (and which I personally think should be "replaced" with .pgn.gz, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel!). bw. Palle Bratholm > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:13 +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > >> I just talked with Mark about the issue. Point is, as always, money. >> TWIC is financed by a sponsorship based on advertisments from various >> interested parties. From this follows, the site needs real visitors for >> the sponsor to invest money and thus keep the site alive. Endangering >> this is of course out of question. >> >> Therefore, Mark told me that he does not want us to automatise the PGN >> download, at the moment. But he also told me that we should stay in >> touch, even about the issue, as there might some day be a solution to it >> and than he'd happily see Scid integrating TWIC. >> > > One possible way round this might be to automatically open TWIC in the > user's web browser every time they download games from TWIC (or whatever > other site you might want to download games form). That way Mark gets > his visitors, even if they don't stay long, and we get automated > downloads. Does this seem like a possibility? > > Ben Hague > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
