On 01/13/12 21:30, Mark Morss wrote:
Hi!
> Since you ask, I perhaps should say that I am an old Unix hand and I
> fully subscribe to the "do one thing well" philosophy.
Me too.
> Much of what I
> see from the SCID list server causes me to worry that SCID is on the
> path to becoming bloatware.
I "fear" you're pretty safe from that. Actually Scid should get a lot of
polishing but not new features at the moment. Unfortunately however,
I've currently nearly no time to work on Scid myself. I'd have a bunch
of things on my list, however.
> With specific regard to automated downloads from TWIC or anywhere else,
> I would much rather see this delivered in a separate executable than as
> an integral part of SCID.
Perfectly agree. And to assure you: we will not add such a function. I
asked Mark if he'd like to have something like that, he doesn't, we'll
not do it.
> I hope those responsible for SCID's direction take into account that
> more and more "functionality" does not always add to the utility
He does :)
> of a piece of software. From this point of view, ChessBase and Chess
> Assistant are very bad models to follow.
Agree.
> In line with this, I find the thought of links in the game headers,
> which would undoubtedly call some sort of attention to themselves,
> pretty horrifying.
Probably, this would depend on how it is handled. If you just place
something like
Source "TWIC
there where you could click on the TWIC you'd hardly notice it. But to
make sure that you've not to be concerned about it to happen:
1) Someone would have to do it in real life code. Experience tells me
that chances are not good for this to happen.
2) The devil lives in the details here: What would you link to? It would
only make sense to link to some sort of URI (persistent URL) as
databases, aka _archives_, tend to live quite some time so all URLs will
lead to nowhere in almost no time (compared to the time scale of a
database). So, as long as chess games do not get URIs assinged that make
sure that the source it links to is available next year, it doesn't make
sense to store any links anyway. You may get back in the list archive to
a lengthy discussion about the feasibility of such links, how one could
build up URIs on basis of persistent identifiers and so on...
> If somebody wants this, it should be his burden to switch it on, not my
> burden to switch it off.
The only way to handle it decently would be like the outbound linking we
currently do in the players information. Note that this is indeed based
upon persistent IDs for the players, and as such only available for a
comparatively small number of them. (Check out Anand or Kasparov e.g.)
--
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