Nice talking to you. On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 17:10 +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > 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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