Author: Peter Schäfer
Date: 01:29:31 01/10/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 23:01:32, Dann Corbit wrote: >There is a purpose behind the collection. I plan to create a SQL database and >an interface that chess programs and interfaces can use. Do you know http://chessengines.webjeff.org/ ? It has a searchable database of engines, including authors, countries, etc. >errors. And in Winboard, you have to read the notes from 200 chess authors to >set things up correctly. Then heaven help us when we download 25 new updates >because (you guessed it) expanding those zip files just wrote over top of all >our old ini files so carefully crafted. > >Also, when you want to set up parameters, you have to store them over and over >in lots of ini files. UCI has solved the problem for some parameters. But >still you are required to know what the parameters are and how to use them. > >I propose that a database can be created to store these parameters. The >database and its structure will be free for everyone to use. Not a bad idea ;-) But the first step should be to define a standard for configuration files, that can be distributed with the engine. I might suggest an XML-based standard... --Peter
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