Re: [Bug-gnubg] How badly do we need something like the old Dueller ?

[Frank Berger]

Hi MaX, Hi Tony,

> That's precisely what Dueller already does now. The tricky part is that in 
> the case of programs like Snowie, where I haven't had any assistance from the 
> developers, it has to simulate a Snowiebot implementing DBSI by carefully 
> observing screen state and synthesising mouse/keyboard actions.
> 
> The gnubg module currently uses that sort of interface (with the CLI version) 
> as well.

My wishlist to Dueller is pretty short:
- don't start BGBlitz itself but use host:port as parameter
- or better just call it Socket Interface and just use host:port.

That way everyone could plug in even if running on another OS. And it is more 
robust against changes. E.g. because Dueller started BGBlitz itself it failed 
when I restructured the file structure of BGB.

ciao
Frank