Re: [chessx-developer] Online chess database

[Scott <sc...@fa...>]

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On Dec 7, 2013, at 8:01, Ejner Borgbjerg <ej...@gm...> wrote:

> I had an idea about a more generic 'Download Manager';
> 
> This should maintain a list of download targets.
> With each target there will be an URL - provided by the GUI user. Eg http://www.theweekinchess.com/zips/.
> And each target gets a local directory for download/synchronize.
> 
> By the way - congratulations on the 1.0.0 release. It looks very nice :)
> 
> Ejner
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Jens Nissen <jen...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Fulvio,
> 
> I'm not sure if I understand completely what you want to have.
> Would a reference database be located somewhere on a public server and each client could update its local copy on a regular basis?
> Chessbase used to have a regular update from twic, but twic has stopped that from their side.
> If you mean something like that, this could be done in chessx with some twenty lines of code.
> The problem would be to create a server which provides updates on a regular basis.
> I don't think, it is allowed to use some publicly available server (like twic) without their explicit permit.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jens
> 
> Am 04.11.2013 um 11:27 schrieb Fulvio <fb...@li...>:
> 
> > A thing that i really would like scid to have is a reference database
> > that is automatically updated.
> > I believe you could be interested too in a similar feature for your
> > programs and maybe we can find a common protocol?
> > I didn't wrote any code yet and it's not an easy task.
> > I considered something like dropbox but they use an http protocol and do
> > not provide a c++ library.
> > Git have a crossplatform library:
> > http://libgit2.github.com/
> > but i do not know how well it will perform with binary data.
> >
> > Do you plan to implement such feature in your programs?
> > Do you have some clever ideas?
> >
> > Bye,
> > Fulvio
> >
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