Re: [Scid-users] Is Shane still around ??

[Michal R. <mr...@kd...>]

Martin Skj=C3=B6ldebrand,  =C5=9Broda, 25 pa=C5=BAdziernika 2006 05:29:

>Unfortunately - Shane, historically, hasn't taken too well to "someone
>meddling with his project" (at least that is how I have seen it) and that
>has put a lot of people off actually continuing the project on their own in
>waiting for Shanes return. I can't speak for Michal but as I see it he
>hasn't gotten much cred for doing a lot for the Scid project all that time
>ago. Also, as Michal is a C-guy (involved in the KDE project) and large
>parts of Scid is in Tcl/Tk so the match wasn't optimal. (I know some PHP a=
nd
>am learning C# which isn't all that useful in the circumstances).
>
>So in the end Michal ended up with an alternative project ChessX. There
>isn't much useful out of that project yet (no where near Scid in features)
>but it's very early days yet.

=46or us, people involved in ChessX, the biggest drawback of working with S=
cid=20
code was Tcl/Tk GUI. Also, C++ code was also a bit difficult to maintain fo=
r=20
others, as it was clearly meant for being maintain by author himself.

So we decide to start from scratch, of course, comparing our efforts with=20
Scid's code and from time to time copying some of the methods, algorithms a=
nd=20
tricks. Main reason was that we find it easier to rewrite it from scratch,=
=20
using some modern free C++ GUI library (Qt was chosen for the purpose).=20
Tcl/Tk, despite its all advantages, isn't a very modern GUI and it lacks so=
me=20
features that we would like to have.

=2D-=20
Michal Rudolf