Some experiences with scid and gentoo I've been using scid for years; the main reason being some emphasis on pgn, fen and the like; open standards and human-readable; to my taste the only way we can escape the conversion-hell.
Some time ago i switched my linux-distribution from sourcemage to gentoo, yep i'am a strong believer in compiling from source (have even used linux from scratch, but some package-management is preferable). I've emerged scid-4.2.2 and used it for some time. Had some issues with my engines; and mostly wanted to use rybka4 as my main engine with Nalimov egtb's, it should also replace toga in Training/Tactics. I suspected some uci-problems in scid-4.2.2 and put it on my source-reading-manipulating TODO list. Experience has learned me that in this kind of situations it is advisable to do a fresh checkout of the development-sources first; perhaps the problems are already solved. Couldn't find any ebuild in gentoo for a git-checkout of scid so had to roll my own; for those interested i've attached my scid-9999.ebuild (based on the scid-4.2.2.ebuild from the main repository). I do not know if it is up to scratch to the gentoo-standards, but hey it worked for me. Trying not to go in too much technicalities; some pointers; the checkout fresh scid seems to have fixed the main issues I've had. I can use the Nalimov egtb's with rybka4 by inserting z:\mnt\sdc6\TB3 (that's where my Nalimov lives) in Configure UCI engine|NalimovPath. (z:\ is the way wine can read files on your linux-box as if they were win-dirs-files). By naming rybka4 toga in the Analysis Engine list rybka4 is being used in Training/Tactics including it using it's egtb. It would be nice perhaps that some engine-defaults could be set by the user in the gui (I believe scid uses toga and phalanx as defaults in some places) I have to mention a MYBAD. I thought for some time there was a bug in a couple of engines including rybka; for they wouldn't work or even crash in some endgame positions. I found out that I was the problem; the endgame-positions were setup by me by Edit\Set up start board and forgot to take any notion to the Castling field. So I get some game with a starting position like 1R6/3k4/1P6/2K5/8/8/3r4/8 w KQkq - 0 1 (an example) wich is completely bogus in the KQkq field, it should read - there. Luckely there's an easy way to fix this by Edit\Paste Clipboard text as PGN game and Paste current game; then change the "FEN" by deleting KQkq and putting - in its place; then Import; it says something like imported without errors; then Game\Save: Replace Game; and all is well. In my ebuild the photos are being placed in /usr/share/game/scid; to get it working \Options\Game Information\Show photos I had to copy the *.spf files to ~/.scid/config I hope the above can be of some interest. >>greetings<< Harry -- Harry Broeken <harry.broe...@xs4all.nl>
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