Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 07:12:11 09/12/02
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On September 12, 2002 at 03:50:16, Daniel Clausen wrote: >I don't think a new protocol has any chance at the moment. I have the feeling >that over time the 'primary' protocol will become UCI (maybe even Crafty will >adopt to it one day :). The fact that Tim Mann doesn't want to put more work in >another version of xboard/winboard and therefore this protocol lacks some >guidance further supports my 'fear'. Naturally I'm a bit more worried about that >than most here, since UCI would mean windows-only, at least at the moment. I don't think a new protocol has "no chance." We won't know until someone creates one with the needed improvements over Winboard and other superior features. If a superior protocol was created, it could be made to work with all existing protocols (or ones created in the future). I think there are many improvements to be made to both Winboard and especially UCI. I don't think either the UCI protocol isn't meant to be a "GUI" (or if it is, it was very poorly designed), and that the Winboard/XBoard GUIs aren't very good as far as providing a graphical user interface for chess engines. I've got quite a few ideas. Maybe I'll put some work into this. Ideally I would like to get people's input, but I tried that once, and the only person who seems interested in giving feedback is Bob, and he doesn't want a new protocol, just a new Winboard protocol. You can't force people to take an interest, but when discussions about current protocols occur, people come out of the wood works with complaints. >I think the the most important thing about a new protocol would be a good base >which is robust and flexible enough. (hey, I would do something in XML :) How about java? That would save people from having to port the GUI to different OS's. Then again, all of the Windows people would have to download and install java, which would certainly be unpopular. So maybe if a new protocol is to survive it should be C/C++. I dunno. If you have ideas let me know. Russell
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