Hello Mark, Since you replied, and politics has been settled, here are my comments:
> I fully subscribe to the "do one thing well" philosophy. Scid is not Sed. This remark makes little sense. > Much of what I see from the SCID list server causes me to worry that SCID is > on the path to becoming bloatware. Scid is already a bloatware, if we keep with Unix orthodoxy. Besides, this is a slippery slope. > There seem to be a great many calls for gingerbread with icing when > perfectly good bread is already being served. We're talking about an URL. An URL that already appears in the PGN window. But now that we consider the fact that it would be colored, and that people could click on this, let's invoke Unix philosophy, armwave bloatware, and use a conservative analogy. > With specific regard to automated downloads from TWIC or anywhere else, I can't recall where that was discussed. But I do recall what was being discussed here: A shell script to download many TWIC was being frowned upon by Alex. This raised a problem for which I offered an answer. Marcin offered another answer. So I'm not sure how this remark is relevant. > I hope those responsible for SCID's direction take into account that more and more "functionality" does not always add to the utility of a piece of software. There's not much of anything that always add to the utility of a piece of sofware. Utility is not solved by asking ourselves if something will always be useful for everyone anytime. > From this point of view, ChessBase and Chess Assistant are very bad models to > follow. So to use an argument you used against TWIC, if you were to stop using Scid, where would you go? > 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. Because of the appeal to Unix authority and the bloatware scaremongering? > If somebody wants this, it should be his burden to switch it on, not my burden to switch it off. Yes, of course. We should talk about burden when comes the time to set and save preferences once. Just think how many clicks this means in one's life. If you get your games from TWIC and Mark asks us to implement this and it gets implemented, I wonder who's burden will it be to find another free games provider. *** All in all, nothing much regarding a rational discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
