Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

I often use Millbase myself. ... Perhaps we should just
link-to/incorporate these existing databases. ?

Re read-only - The si4 standard doesnt allow for a read-only setting anywhere.
But a good workaround is to give the files read-only permissions.
In unix this is done by
  chmod a-w DATABASE.s?4

Steve


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:40 PM, thetasquared <ch...@th...> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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.
>>
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