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Include Crafty with WinBoard package?

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H.G.Muller

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Post subject: Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package? Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:14 pm

Dann Corbit wrote:

Here's an idea:

Have a checkbox of the engines you want.

After checking all the boxes you like, web requests collect the engines and install them.

That is a great idea, and originally how I wanted to do it. But nobody knew how to make a web installer, I least of all. So we are stuck with a simple nsis script. We had someone who knew how to do that.

My vision for the future is this, however:
1) The nsis installer will also bundle an InstallTool with WinBoard.
2) When invoked, this InstallTool will start with downloading a descption file from you favorite maintainer website. (E.g. WBEC, RWBC, as you configure it)
3) This description file will contain a list of engines, (engine versions), together with info like:

Code:

URL where it is hosted,
installation folder,
required command line to unpack the download,
command line to run the engine,
author,
country,
Elo rating,
supported variants,
remarks

The user will see this info displayed in the InstallTool window in columnar form, and can sort it on any column.
4) The user can click on an engine line to download and install the engine, in the winboard.ini or PSWBTM engine database, or both, as the InstallTool settings indicate.

The idea is that the people who now habitually keep track of the existence and wherabouts of engines, would volunteer as maintainers, and cast the results of their efforts in a machine-readable format for the InstallTool.

But, unfortunately, all this has to wait until I have finished my Shogi engine... Embarassed

Last edited by H.G.Muller on Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:19 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Subject	Author	Date/Time
Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Joshua Haglund	Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:30 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Jon Dart	Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:35 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	H.G.Muller	Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:45 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	clare marie benedicto	Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:46 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Matthew Hull	Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:55 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	H.G.Muller	Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:57 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Michel Van den Bergh	Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:52 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Dann Corbit	Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:54 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	H.G.Muller	Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	H.G.Muller	Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:17 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Ricardo Gibert	Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:56 pm
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	H.G.Muller	Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:00 am
Re: Include Crafty with Winboard package?	Guenther Simon	Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:38 am

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