Re: Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:51 pm
There is no official maintainer since Michel van den Bergh gave it up, AFAIK. I never considered myself a maintainer of Polyglot, just a user who needed a version that supported the extensions of WB protocol, so that the new XBoard features would also work with UCI egines.
As far as XBoard/WinBoard is concerned, Polyglot is scheduled for retirement anyway. The latest beta package of WinBoard did not contain any Polyglot, but relied on UCI2WB instead.
The Debian maintainer uses my fork, because it is the most advanced version, and taking other versions would cause heavy loss of functionality of XBoard.
As far as XBoard/WinBoard is concerned, Polyglot is scheduled for retirement anyway. The latest beta package of WinBoard did not contain any Polyglot, but relied on UCI2WB instead.
The Debian maintainer uses my fork, because it is the most advanced version, and taking other versions would cause heavy loss of functionality of XBoard.