Hello,
I do not think that bad documentation is the major problem of scid. I cannot
remember looking into documentation of Chessbase.
Problem with scid is that it implements thousands of features all of them
working sometimes and somehow and sharing some code. There is no clear
concept anywhere. The second problem is that everybody implements in the
product what he likes to have and does not care about the features he is not
using. This does not work without breaking something else. These days agile
programming is a hype, but I think these guys have something else in mind.
At the beginning I was optimistic and tried not to develop new features but
just to get some important ones running like filtering. I am developing
software 40 hours a week and decided that I do not need to have something
like this in the evening.
So I never got the confidence to move my main data source from Chessbase to
Scid and now I am fully back to Chessbase. The implementation of their
algorithms is ridiculous bad, but with the help of the cbh-parser of scidb I
could develop my tools and computers are very fast today.
I do not see a future for scid, if not some developers find together to
agree on a concept and to implement it together. Maybe on this way it is an
idea to split the program into multiple serving different purposes and
sharing common base functionality. When a user plays in the internet he does
not work on opening theory or prepare for a game against a specific
opponent. The same for somebody who likes to make engine competitions. All
tools can still share the same stable database format routines. But it will
be easier to focus on the purpose of each of these tools.
The developer of scidb came to the same conclusion but starting from scratch
is also no good idea. Scidb seems to develop slowly but also in a direction
I am not interested in. No alternative for Chessbase, no functionality to
manage large databases and to allow efficient usage of its content.
Gerd
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Ben St-Pierre [mailto:benbon...@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 22:20
An: f...@libero.it
Cc: Scid Users List
Betreff: Re: [Scid-users] Testing
Videos would be good.
Online docs too.
And if we could dream, an F1 command that would work like Textmate would be
great too!
(Textmate helps you find the command you want in the menu list.)
There is nothing concurrent about all this. We just need to get things
organized, or leave them disorganized in a way that people can enjoy
contributing.
***
I'm willing to make Scid Doc my next pet project, even if my programming
gurus keep telling me this leads to a dead end.
I gather that it would be better to invest my time doing that than trying to
tame Internet Trolls.
***
The kicks-ass.org part was there because it's a free ad-on. I admit it was
crass.
I'm open for any suggestion. scid.info is open, but someone said it was a
crappy name.
I'll try to find back everything that was written on that subject a few
years ago.
For now, I could add a scid folder to bstp.ca or automagi.ca or oueb.ca or
benoitstpierre.info
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:03 PM, f...@libero.it <f...@libero.it> wrote:
> Hi everyone and happy new year!
> I'm surprised to see such a burst of emails after a lot of time!
>
> About docs, are you aware of scid's tutorial videos on youtube?
> Such as:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdkJg9jrIo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZPltcSyjo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjFQmaLTDo
>
> I know that exist a "YouTube Partner Program" that pays for views (i
> don't know the details or how much it pays).
> So maybe someone would like to record video of chess lessons/scid's
> tutorials killing two birds with one stone?
>
> Best wishes,
> Fulvio
>
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