Author: Tim Mann
Date: 19:26:30 12/09/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 05:26:44, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >how about adding new features to support > >1. dynamic allocation of a hash table, >and 2. tablebase configuration (path etc.) ? One or two other people have asked for those parameters too. I'd rather not just add them as special cases; I'd prefer to have a more general method of setting per-engine parameters in a nice way through the GUI. A few people have sent me suggestions along those lines -- for instance, Steffen Jakob sent a proposal over a year ago for some new engine commands that would let the engine create a menu in the GUI -- but I haven't pursued doing a complete design. A full solution should be combined with a much easier way of installing a new engine for use with the GUI. A lot of what's involved is really just GUI design; probably very little needs to be added to the protocol. Anyway, I don't think I'm going to get anything like that into the next protocol spec or xboard release -- I want to get what I've done so far out the door soon -- but at least the revised protocol makes it much easier to add features (though the feature command) without breaking existing engines that don't know about them.
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