Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 15:58:04 11/06/04
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Hi, Personally, I don't want to support any 'special features' in GUIs. This will lead to WB protocol becoming confusing, as now every GUI has its own features not available in the other. ChessBase8 may have a feature, chessbase9 may have another, new, feature. So now the GUi string gui chessbase Dosen't cut it anymore. YOu need gui chessbase8 gui chessbase9 etc. In other words, authors whose programs use WB2 protocol will have the task of maintaining a small DB of GUI's within their programs. Even worse, different GUIs will decide to use different names/strings for a same feature. This will become messy. If some GUI has a useful new feature, it is probably better to add it to the Winboard protocol proper, rather than leave it at the mercy of GUIs. Note that I don't have any objection to the gui command, I just feel that using it as a basis to have special code for separate GUIs is not something I want to do. Regards, Pallav
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