Re: [Bug-gnubg] Command line version

[Philippe Michel]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> I haven't found much documentation about the command line version. Is
> there something available?
>
> Cant the command line version perform rollouts and do most of the things
> the graphic version does?

Rolling out positions is relativaly easy. Something like :

load commands "script to setup rollout options"

load position "pos.sgf"
  or
set matchid mmm
set board bbb

hint

rollout =cube
  or
rollout =1 =2 =3

export position text "pos.txt"

set another position, or change score, etc...

There was a time when CLI rollouts were noticeably faster than those from 
the GUI, but this may not be the case anymore (there were some fixes to 
rollout progress display that should have helped).

There are some small problems when the result is displayed : 
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?12805

Rolling out a game or a match looks cumbersome (I never really tried it).

What would be nice would be a "delayed" toggle in the GUI Setting|Rollouts 
menu. With it selected, rolling out a move or a cube decision would just 
append the corresponding commands (load match ; set rollout parameters ; 
hint ; rollout selection ; save match) to a script file that could be run 
later.