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[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not fou
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[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found |
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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:20:52 +0000 |
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Follow-up Comment #3, bug #27687 (project xboard):
Well, "software just working" is not an option for softare that has the
purpose of suporting other software (such as a GUI for an engine). The main
culprit here is the package management system, which fails to recognize a
dependency between XBoard and its default engine, so that the latter is not
automatically installed when you install XBoard.
Now in general I am strongly in favor of solving problems where they are,
rather than trying to work around them in a cumbersome way (and thereby
leaving the true problem and reducing the probability that it will ever be
solved).
Now in this particular case I guess that the package maintainers also have a
pont, namely that XBoard also has enough functionality (ICS client, PGN
viewer) to make a dependency on an engine undesirable. So perhaps we should
bow to this. But then it is illogical to make running an engine the default
mode, and we should really make -ics mode the default, connecting people
immediately to FICS if they run XBoard without arguments. (That is probably
better than -ncp mode.)
H.G.Muller
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- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Michael Shigorin, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, anonymous, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Michael Shigorin, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found,
anonymous <=
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Michael Shigorin, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, anonymous, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Tim Mann, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Michael Shigorin, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, anonymous, 2009/10/13
- [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found, Arun Persaud, 2009/10/19