On 01/15/12 04:19, Ben St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
[...]
>> 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.
I just raised one little point some people might have missed.
>> 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.
Mark didn't ask us anything to implement, he asked us not to implement
for a IMHO good reason. We should just respect that.
Besides: personally, I see no room for any advertisements be it links or
whatever to be placed within Scids code. Regardless, who will profit
from them.
To Marcins suggestion: one could in principle have a Source tag that is
a link, but that would require the link to be persistent. I see no
system of persistent identifiers for chess games.
--
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|
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