First, let me acknowledge that this question is probably fully covered in
the mailing list archives. However, when I try to search there on the
Sourceforge site, I get a message that I don¹t have sufficient privileges.
I also don¹t see a version history on the SCID Sourceforge page. So I¹ll
just ask here.
I¹m curious as to what the differences are between version 3.5.x and 3.6.1
of SCID. Is it mostly bugfixes, or are there significant functional
enhancements?
At home, I have SCID on a couple of Macs running Mac OS 10.4.10. I use the
Fink compiled version 3.5.001. I realize that I should be able to compile
the latest version myself, but I¹m not at all Linux savvy, and I¹m putting
off learning how to do this until I¹m sufficiently bored.
At work, I don¹t really have that much spare time to be fooling around with
chess programs, but I did put the latest Windows version, 3.6.1 on a
computer there. So far, I haven¹t really noticed any difference in the
available functions, or how well it performs them. I¹m just wondering, if I
did manage to compile the later version for Mac, what advantages would I
get?
As a note to other Mac users, I got SCID working after buying the full
version of ExaChess. ExaChess is a great program, reasonably priced, and in
a number of ways I prefer it to SCID. I use it as my principal database
program, but I can¹t resist playing around with freeware/shareware, which is
why I also downloaded SCID. SCID is also excellent, and has an obvious
price advantage.
Marc
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