Author: Keith Kitson
Date: 23:56:12 03/03/06
Just reading through the thread on Opening books, proposals etc. it strikes me that we are in danger of presenting the solution before we have a firm grip on requirements....always a dangerous approach. My suggestion for the requirements of the software would be: 1. A stand-a-lone system portable to all platforms 2. Able to accept all formats of opening book and convert to any other recognised format 3. Software written to enable easy addition of new formats by developer 4. Comprehensive editing facilities These requirements are independent of the language to be used to write the application. I suspect the main problem is justifying the writing of a system and finding a developer/s to write and implement. Perhaps if this were made a commercial concern, i.e. with a cost for the package it may be viable to write and support such an application. I'm not sure if there would be any contravention of owners existing book format rights if a package was written to match the above requirements. i.e. would chessbase complain about catering for their book format etc. KK
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