Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:23:50 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 18:16:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 12:48:01, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On August 25, 2002 at 09:31:39, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>a) before protocol 3 is implemented someone else than Tim Mann >>> must take over winboard development (Dann Corbitt?) >>>b) problems will not go away of course unless protocol 3 is not >>> downwards compatible. >> >>Why does that make problems if it is backward compatible? If there is a new >>protocol (and the majority is new) and the old commands are simply still >>supported, then why is that a bad thing? If you encourage people to use the new >>features, and then they still use the old ones, they don't have much to be >>complaining about. >> >>Russell > >Because some lazy persons (in principle most winboard engine authors are >lazy, otherwise they would have their own interface) Don't you think it could be because they prefer to spend their time on the interesting part, namely the engine? ;) > are that lazy that >they don't want the winboard protocol to get fixed, because they must >rewrite their thing, as they want to keep up with protocol version 3. I have been working on a new dialog with some tournament settings for winboard, but I dropped it because Arena can do it already, and my MFC is very rusty so I'd prefer not the be the chosen one. I think Martin Blume would be the obvious candidate to implement WB3, at least in Arena. What we need is for Tim to give the formal go ahead, and for some programmers to get together and agree on the much needed WB3 features. >you need an entire new protocol. of course you can use a lot of the same >commands, but all kind of race bugs must get out. WB has support of 100+ engines, that is its strong point. WB3 must be backwards compatible or else we might as well drop it and go with UCI. -S.
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