Perhaps it is once again time to revisit the issue of the great Scid fork, and taking over this abandoned project.
Since Feb 2007 nothing has transpired on the Scid project. No new releases. No code committed. No return of our beloved Shane. Where once there was one, now there are two forks of this program we all love so dearly. Both ChessDB and Scid-pg Since this issue got ridiculous political, why don't we take an objective glimpse at how far these two projects have come: http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/changes/ Download games from ICC Much improved connectivity to The Week In Chess (TWIC) web site. all language files have been split into 4. $lang-basic.tcl (w A new logo Improved method of annotating a game, which still detects blunders, but ignores minor differences of score. Minor fixes http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/scid_newfeatures.html Play a game against an opponent with a defined ELO Play a game against an UCI engine Search for blunders in a game (auto-annotation) Add markers directly on the board Opening trainer Easy game navigation Tactical exercises Multi-variations display (N best lines) UCI engines support Opening book EPD support Minor updates >From the looks of there was a lot more work put into Scid-pg. Now, there have been a lot of valuable Open Source projects that have been killed by egos. Let's not let this be one of them. Shane is gone. Maybe deceased. But in any case has no interest in Scid. He knows its out there. He knows people love and use it. But he's expressed no interest that I know of in the last 4 years. While there are rumors he didn't like people futzing with his code, he also made it open source and hosted it on SourceForge. SF has a policy of allowing future development on abandoned project under the flag of the original project once the author has lost interest. It seems right that Scid should continue to flourish -- certainly its userbase would enjoy new features. For some of us, Scid is the only reason not to buy Chessbase (I own two versions and still prefer Scid). So let's put differences aside and breath life into this wonderful project. Let the most active fork become the official main branch. Let the userbase win with a new version of a product they've known and loved. Let's let Scid-pg take over the Scid project at SourceForge and end this silly feud. -jason (author of ICTK, hosted on SourceForge) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
