Thanks for the feedback, Chris and Iwu
I am playing in a correspondence chess championship right now and can only
invest one evening per week. Sorry for the delays and all. I'd never
thought I'd use SCID that much!
Here are my responses.
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> I can't think of many programs that don't read their config info on
startup.
Right, but the point here is that loading a spellcheck file will work
without having to restart SCID, while the same kind of procedure won't work
for photos. It took me a while to make the procedure works. There are less
patient users than me who will give up.
Sure, it's just photos, but I restarted to use the Game Information Area to
see mug faces!
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> Why should this be an issue? e.g. If I upgrade scid it doesn't remove any
files.
There are many issues with this, neither of which are critical.
The first depends upon how you upgrade SCID. As Iwu, I upgrade SCID in a
new directory, which means I keep my old installation intact, in case
something broken happens, or in my specific case because I test many
versions of SCID. Also, we give users a portable binary, which means
either a new directory gets created, or the old one gets replaced by a new
SCID installation. I often use SCID from an USB key, and prefer that kind
of install in general.
The second is architecture consistency. While I can understand how SCID
came to organize its files the way it does, to put data files in the /bin
directory may be tough to justify on conceptual ground. Besides, there's
already /bin/books, /bin/tcl, /bin/data (!), etc. I see no reason why there
should not be something like /bin/players, or better yet why we shan't
separate /bin and /data, where /data could be used to store players' info
and other kinds of data, in a subdirectory (or not, as I dislike
subdirectories in general).
That said, if it means messing with SCID's code, then I'd say the hell with
conceptual consistency!
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> I wonder if it would makes sense to remove the "hard coding" that makes
scid look in only \bin (Windows) or ~/.scid/ (*nix) for the spf/spi files,
and instead make it configurable, using a selection dialog, such as that
used for the spelling or tablebase files?
As I see it, this could be like another Options/Load... options. This way,
one would not need to have multiple copies of these files if one has many
installations of SCID. I could add this as a feature request in the SF's
tickets if you want.
Again, if it's too much work, I'd suggest we'd put this at the bottom of
the pile of things to do.
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A question: I tried using links of files in /bin, and it does not work in
WIN. Can someone confirm that using symlinks work in Linux?
Best,
B
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