Pascal Georges wrote: Hi!
> I do not get how you want to set it up: Scid links to > http://www.somehwere.org/scid-binaries/ > and the list is maintained there? You think probably of a > Wiki-like target for this so everybody could hook up links > to his individual builds? > > Or do you think of a page within scid.sf.net/scid-binaries > <http://scid.sf.net/scid-binaries> > that just contains links off-site, that might be broken some > day and just need to be checked from time to time? > > All those solutions are ok for me, as none goes through the SF's release > process, which is time consuming. Ah! Now I get it. You do not want to host rpm, deb, tgz <whatever> beyond the current formats on the scids site at SF. Here we perfectly agree. I think that we should add links to the prebuild binaries though. What are those building binaries think is the most viable way to handle the linking? > > - be careful when stripping Scid (books, DB, etc...) as it > > breaks some features, and I don't like this. > > Actually, some parts of scid would plainly not allow it to > make it into some distributions if it's not removed. I > learned that Nalimov-code is a problem, books are sometimes > regarded as "unclear" and for that thrown out. Bases > similar. For the engines the feedback was: "its better if > one can use what is there from other sources and keeps that > part to the absolute minimum." > > > Nalimov code has been included into Scid for a long time > and Shane had received authorisation for the inclusion > into Scid. I agree it is not 100% clear it is GPL, but it > seems ok for me (see COPYING file). Distributions have a problem. It was the first response I got from Peter @debian that it is not compliant with distribution policy. (Ie. no problem to scid but to the Linux packagers.) > Bases were generated by myself, and any license can be > applied to them, if needed. Some books were generated by > myself, and some by others. Generating a book is easy > (simply use polyglot) and I would find a pity not to > include at least a sample book with Scid. I agree. Here, the I was told that one would just prefer a "scid-data" package separated from the pure binary. > I think, the Bases and Books part could only be overcome by > a "Scid Referenence Database" (CentriScid was a name for > this recently) and a "Scid Reference Opening Book" (call it > ScidBook for the time being). Here also another free book > could be used e.g. Harry Schnapps book (if someone has a > contact there...) > > HS Book is not free at all. I know. Some times there was even a stanza about "this is for arena only". > predefined DBs from scids website." Which then initiates a > download and install into userspace. (Jose handles > opening books that way. One of the few parts that work > pretty well in Jose I might add.) If scid e.g. first gets > back some structure of the offerings it could be pretty > flexible. > > This complicates things a bit. I prefer the simplest and > laziest solution, where everything is packaged in a > monolithic mode. I know that you prefer that. ;) > But this is just my opinion. A good solution is one that > works and is garanteed to work for a long time. Agree. Its also nothing done right now, but I think in that direction. I can not provide that myself now, but I've some ideas that require fetch-by-http-code to work well, so it could be a by-product. Anyway, I've other issues first, and it's no pressing issue. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
