Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 15:18:12 07/20/99
Go up one level in this thread
[Robert Pawlak:] > I'd be interested to hear what some of the people directly involved with the > development of chess software think about Linux. Well, I'm not directly involved, but note that the primary development platform for Crafty is Linux. Crafty is a strong program, and its author is a pretty big name in chess software. > Specifically, do you think that it is now/will be a platform worth developing > for. From a layman's standpoint, I would think that it would not be too > difficult to port an engine written in ANSI C over to Linux, then use Tkl or > something like it to build an interface. If something's written strictly in ANSI C then it will work as happily under Linux as anywhere else. I'm not an expert on Tk or any other toolkit, so I can't comment on that. > Also, do you think that the development tools are sufficiently mature to > undertake something like this? Certainly. > But, I realize that not all engines are coded in C... As a side question, what > is the percentage of chess engines coded in C, and in assembler? No idea.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.