Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 02:30:20 01/20/04
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On January 19, 2004 at 10:19:16, Bob Durrett wrote: >On January 19, 2004 at 08:44:58, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >> >>I don't see this as an user tool but rather as a help tool for the >>engine-author. >> >>Odd Gunnar > >It is a big step in the right direction. When it also becomes a "user tool," >then I will be happy since I am a "user." : ) > >Bob D. As it is planned it is a tool be used inside a installation package alá InnoSetup or InstallerShield. The result should be a single file you can download from the Internet or a setup from a CD like those in magasines so that you with a single 'click' could install the engine with books, personalities etc. into your installed GUI's after your choice. You find something similar in ChessPartner to install Crafty into this GUI from one of the help menues where Lokasoft have created a (single) setupfile. What you want for it to be a 'user' tool is to replace this installer-program with a program configured to go into the authors homesite on the internet and grab those files with the script for installing. There are at least one agreement to be sorted out for this to work. The author have to have a site for his program and create a script that an installerprogram could read (new install, update etc.). The program to read this shouldn't be the hard part it only needs a common place on the internet to grab the site addresses for each engine. The tool I lined out earlier in this thread is a tool to find out which gui you have on your machine and then install it in those guis. Eg. a tool to be run after you have got the engine-files onto your machine. Whether it is easier for a user to download and install a general installer program and then run this from time to time to check for updates or use an internet site you can get to from a help-menu in your gui isn't obvious for me. Odd Gunnar
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