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Subject: Re: Draft of revised xboard/winboard engine protocol

Author: Tim Mann

Date: 17:52:27 12/10/00

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On December 10, 2000 at 00:08:24, Chessfun wrote:

>>>But it would seem to me from that alone Stefan has a reasonable point.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>What point would that be?
>
>That a week after UCI these changes are announced.

It's a fact that my post was about a week after his, but that's just a raw fact,
not a point.  It would have been wiser for me to put a paragraph at the top of
my post saying that this was something I've been working on for a few months,
and that it's a coincidence that Stefan was working on UCI at the same time.  I
didn't think to do that, but that doesn't give anyone justification to conclude
that I put my work together in a week as a copy of UCI -- especially since my
changes to the WinBoard protocol don't work anything like UCI.

>I had read a post I believe from you before that you would no longer be working
>on any changes to Winboard. If I'm wrong then I apologize in advance.

I've said at various times that I was doing little or nothing on WinBoard
anymore.  In fact I did very little on it for about a year and a half; the
changes between 4.0.0 and 4.0.7 were all pretty small, and much of the new stuff
in 4.1.0 was donated by another programmer.  I certainly didn't promise never to
work on WinBoard again, though.  I don't see that anyone has the right to
complain if I decide to work on it some more and fix some problems with it.



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