Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 13:25:04 12/08/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 13:53:12, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > > >This is not what I wanted to see happen after publishing our UCI engine <-> user >interface protocol. Winboard hasn’t moved for years and now that our protocol is >published for a week suddenly all the improvements we added in UCI are copied to >winboard. I published UCI to have ONE clear and easy engine protocol. Well, UCI >is free, but still I don’t really like that. Winboard/xboard protocol has been gradually evolving, just look at the spec and see the various features things that have been replaced by better methods (eg. '...' vs 'move' for sending a move to winboard/xboard). Still, I'd say that by releasing your spec you effectively gave the winboard thing a 'hurry up'. Its unrealistic that you publish a spec. and automatically expect everyone to just convert to it. If you really want UCI to catch on, you might consider writing a winboard/UCI translator what would allow people to run UCI engines inside winboard. That shouldn't be too hard. cheers, Peter > >Stefan
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