Re: [Bug-gnubg] prunning and sgf

[Jim Segrave]

On Mon 11 Oct 2004 (19:39 +1300), Joseph Heled wrote:
> 
> I just realized that since pruning info is part of the eval context, my 
> changes will break reading existing sgf files.
> 
> I can't remember, but I am sure this problem has come up before. Any ideas?

When I added the rollout extension things, I added some additional
additional fields to the rollout contexts and then put in a version
(defined in eval.h) to tell sgf.c whether or not to expect the extra
data. If handling an older .sgf file, I simply had to put in default
data (you can't extend a rollout from an older file). You might be
able to use the same approach if it's possible to put some reasonable
values in for the missing data. What I did was to put the string 
ver %d at the beginning of the analysis (when it is a rollout). sgf.c
checks for the presence of 'ver' followed by an integer and, if it's
found, it will expect extra data in the analysis.


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