Arasan on github

[jdart]

Arasan chess engine source (not including the GUI) is now available on github: see https://github.com/jdart1/arasan-chess.

This will allow developers to access the source code, including changes that have not yet made it into an official release. I don't know that anyone will actually want that, but if you do, there it is. The repository is source code only, so if you want a runnable binary between releases, you will have to build it from the source (see doc/INSTALL for Linux-centric instructions, although there is also a Windows Makefile in the source dir).

Official releases (source + binary) are still going to be hosted at http://www.arasanchess.org.

The master branch tag "v15.6.0" identifies the source for the recent 15.6 release.

I have already pushed out a couple of changes into the master branch that are more recent. One is a change to the book format that allows finer-grained weights (caution: this means that 15.6 and older binary books do not work with the current source - book files need to be re-generated using the makebook program).

The 2nd change is some performance fixes for large multi-core and multi-processor systems. I am still working on this but the current source improves this somewhat.

--Jon