Michal Rudolf wrote:
Hi!
> Benoit St-Pierre, piątek, 27 czerwca 2008:
>>> This is a good example demonstrating UIDs are useless : everybody would
>>> prefer to set an "Annotator" tag and even comments, far easier to
>>> understand and manage than a game with same tags but different UID.
>> This is a good example of reasoning showing why we don't have correct chess
>> databases. Annotator would work for one author, not many. And annotator
>> does not identify who says what. Commenting takes some space too, I take
>> it.
>>
>> My take is that everybody prefers not to take chess database information too
>> seriously and does is little thing, or rely on a proprietary solution.
I do not agree to the reasoning nor the conclusions, but
thats another point. As I've not the time to do anything in
the DB code and it seems to create extreme impact for the
time beeing to add a single header line
[CmailGameName "CS-V10-123456"]
well, its fine with me. Just get it going. Thats more
important.
> If I were to to create and maintain high-quality database,
> I would use separate PGNs for each tournament (sorted by
> year) and store them in CVS. This way, they can be
> improved easily (even by correcting typos in single game).
> From time to time, they would be merged into single Scid
> database.
1. I do not think that cvs is suitable
2. I do not thing that the people who I'd like to invite for
the setup of such a thing want to read trough a bunch of
programmers manuals to learn cvs ;)
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