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Subject: Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft

Author: F. Huber

Date: 12:57:51 03/15/05

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On March 15, 2005 at 15:43:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 15, 2005 at 15:40:33, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>On March 15, 2005 at 13:54:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>The UCI protocol is flawed because it does not store the engine setup
>>>information.  You have to communicate this stuff every time.  Still, this part
>>>of the UCI protocol is clearly better than Winboard, because it at least is
>>>uniform.
>>
>>Hi Dann,
>>
>>there´s absolutely nothing flawed in the UCI protocol, at least not in your
>>mentioned problem of storing the engine setup!
>>
>>The reason why this ´setup storing´ can´t be found anywhere in the UCI protocol,
>>is simply that this is either the task of the GUI _or_ the engine itself -
>>whoever wants to implement this!
>>
>>Do you need examples?
>
>Yes, by all means.
>
>>Well, e.g. Arena actually stores _every_ engine option in the registry!
>
>And it should be in a database.

Is the registry no database?

>
>>And e.g. ChestUCI has its own INI-file, where it also stores all of its
>>settings (moreover you can even specify the ´behaviour´ of this INI-file
>>in 3 different ways with a special commandline parameter for ChestUCI)!
>
>And what a horrible place to do it.

Again, is a INI-file no database?
(BTW, the user has absolutely nothing to do with ChestUCI´s INI-file!)

This time you´re really speaking _nonsense_! :-(



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