Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 13:17:57 11/12/03
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On November 12, 2003 at 15:44:52, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >For pure playing I agree with you that playing with the package you purchased is >best. >Many (probably most) chessplayers only buy/play with one program at a time for >this purpose. If an author of an engine could manage to create a package where >the user only have to click on a setupfile either from a CD or downloaded from >internet to install a new (free) engine into his loving gui, I guess more people >would do this and get even more fun out of the software. Such package could be >created with easy for almost any gui. Odd Gunnar, unfortunately I have no expertize in this (creating an easily installable package for my engine). But I would actually like to do it. Do you have any suggestion, where to start? For example, I would like to have an installer, that edits winboard.ini (when the user wants this). Perhaps even ask if he wants to download the book. Under windows perhaps store the book under \documents\username ... and create an engine.ini, that would set the book path accordingly. Similar for the engine as UCI. Initialize that UCI option "book file" to the right file, that can be shared, copy the engine to some CB/Shredder Classic/CP/CA folder, ... Perhaps even not copy the engine, but only set some path. Perhaps automatically edit engineext.ini (or whatever that filename was) of CP, ... And the same would be nice for Linux, too ... To me, it looks rather complicated. But even some of those things would be nice. Regards, Dieter
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