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Subject: Re: Question to Robert Hyatt

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:16:35 04/16/02

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On April 16, 2002 at 13:17:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 16, 2002 at 12:05:09, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>Hello Robert,
>>
>>at first many thanks for your great work on Crafty over the last years!
>>
>>But there is one thing I really don´t understand:
>>Why does it take such a long time between releasing the source code
>>of a new Crafty version and providing the compiled (ready to use) file?
>>I think most users of Crafty don´t have a compiler to do this job,
>>and so we have to wait a very long time (sometimes many weeks) until
>>we can play against your new version.
>>For YOU this compilation would be a thing of some minutes!
>>Or is there some reason for this, that I don´t know?
>
>Yes.  I don't use windows here, which means I can't compile windows
>executables.  Eugene does this as he has time, and since he is in the
>compiler group, he can use a compiler that hasn't been released yet,
>to get faster executables.

Does Eugenue do it only for crafty or also for other chess programs with free
source code?

Uri



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