Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:01:23 10/01/00
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On September 30, 2000 at 11:23:58, ERIQ wrote: >I would buy either tiger II or rebel as an engine under xboard but would >rather have the same good interface as chess partner w/ good database >support as I think their aren't any good databases in linux right now. >I think anyone who solves that problem and has a great engine will really >make some money. Another dreamer. Only freaks can work with linux right now Usually those freaks are either system admins, professor, hacker or something similar. But they share to be not very realistic towards linux usage. Yes installation improved from the different packages (note those are commercial packages which cost like 50 dollars in a shop), but it's just too hard to use still. The average user already can't get 'install' a new diepm.exe version into their directory when i ship them a new version (under windows). They need to click it and then it gotta install AUTOMATICALLY to the right directory (which just an executable doesn't do). Command-prompts usage is unthinkable already in windows. Dragging files with the mouse is even harder for the average user. Not to mention if you want to list files for example in colors and sorted upon size in linux: ls -l -A --color | sort Great command to get people confused! "Where do i need to type it?" Now i would still also cross compile my diep windows interface for linux, if there was a decent way to do it, yet i'm not getting helped much there either. I developed for X-windows (unix) some years ago some beginners applications. Not worth mentionning what they did, even lost the source, but developing the same interface under linux as i do under windows now seems impossible to me. If there would be a chance that i could sell 1/20 of my software for linux, then i would already doing the effort to make a graphical linux interface, but i'm dead sure no one ever would. Not to mention that you need to sell things for linux for lower prices also. Fact is that if there was an *easy* way to cross compile my interface for windows also for linux, that i would simply cross compile it. I'm sure most developers would do that. But no chance that this ever happens. >I would also put it on the same disk as the windows version and sell for $65 >but that's just me. :) $65 is nowadays a lot in european euro's :)
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