From: thetasquared <ch...@th...> - 2013-08-18 13:07:19
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My suggestion for community database... http://katar.weebly.com/index.html on that topic, is it possible to make a database "read-only" by default? I have to set it to read-only every time I start up the program. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote: > I've just compiled a quick todo of the major things that people may > wish to look at. > > Most of these will probably never get done :), but here they are. > > I'll write them up properly on the webpage sometime soon. If anyone > can think of things that've been mentioned in the past, but forgotten > , pls let me know. > > Steve > > * Mainline SCID's new filter sort feature finally seems to be bug > free, but i am unsure about it's merit. It is a little confusing > having more than one notion of sort, and the changes are not trivial > (and probably detract from stability). What do we do when copying > temporarily sorted games to a new base ? All bases seem to be sorted > the same way ?? If anyone feels strongly about this feature and is a > good C++ coder, they are welcome to prepare a patch for testing. > > * Openseal is an open source version of FICS Timeseal. It needs some > rewriting to work with Scid, though it is a small program. > > * FICS could be adapted to work with the ICC. The work involves > analysing the differences in the strings used by the two programs. > (for example, for FICS we have this line to ackowledge successful log-in > if {[string match "*Starting FICS session*" $line]} { > The two servers do have many similarities i think, and examining > xboard's "backend.c" (or some other client) for "FICS" particularities > > * Russian translation is broken afaics, and has been removed for the time > being. > > * The month i've updated the translations a little. (Thanks to Peter > for totally overhauling the Dutch one). The checklangs.tcl script is > in much better shape, but of course there are still lots of > translation "todos" > > * The TCL sound package, Snack, needs a maintainer. > > * There was a lot of work done to implement Fischer Chess (Chess 960), > but they never fixed all the bugs, and the web site > http://www.wtfai.me.uk/scid960.html is now gone. The latest code is in > ScidvsPC's source patches/chess960.patch > > * The Tree code works reasonably well, but i have never found the time > to overhaul the Slow/Fast/Slow&Fast modes. These were (for a long > time) negelected when Fulvio wrote the interuptible tree code. Scid > now has the Modes removed, so doing this in ScidvsPC probably wouldnt > be terribly hard to do. > > * There are two engine types - UCI and XBoard. Pascal's UCI code is in > some ways inferior to Shane's Xboard code. > Though this is mostly mitigated by the speed of modern processors, > it'd be nice to make use of the UCI ponder feature in analysis mode > (Comp mode already does so). > > * I've never had a chance to verify/update the Novag Citrine drivers > and interface due to lack of hardware. > > * Our Windows port needs a little overhaul to properly use Users home > directory to store all the various data. > I will get around to doing it one day though. > > * A lot of people use chessbase books (.ctg). Scid can only read > polyglot opening books, but inlining this projects > work may not be too hard. https://github.com/sshivaji/ctgexporter > > * A quality, free, community database - though i don't really want to > go over what has been said before - so best > to trawl the mailing list archives to catch up on this one. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Scidvspc-users mailing list > Sci...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users > |