Re: polyglot package

[h . g . muller]

Op Zo, 1 september, 2019 8:50 am schreef Wolfgang Gauf:
> apt show xboard | grep Recommends lists: fairymax, alsa-utils,
> xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi
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> Listing polyglot and uci2wb there would be an improvement.

Sure. 'Recommends' doesn't imply it would be automatically installed when
you install the xboard package, but it is better than nothing.

But you don't have to convince us. The distro maintainers create the
packages, and decide about the dependencies. This is not a process
controlled by the upstream source.

Perhaps we should alter the error-popup text if XBoard doesn't manage to
start an 'engine' that is in fact a (known) protocol adapter (i.e. invoked
through the -fUCI or -fUSI options), to point out to the user that he has
to install the corresponding adapter.

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> Cheers & thanks for your efforts,
> Wolfgang
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> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:43:53 +0200
> address@hidden wrote:
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>> It appears debian is running Polyglot 2.0.4:
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>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=polyglot
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>> They also run UCI2WB:
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>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uci2wb
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>> Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 7:27 pm schreef Joshua Pettus:
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>>> I wonder what version of polyglot they distibute.   There are all
>>> sorts of versions floating arround as it never was a centralized
>>> project.  Havnt we replaced polyglot with uci2wb anyway?  Is that a
>>> package?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Josh Pettus
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>>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 12:45 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 11:30 am schreef Wolfgang Gauf:
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>>>>> Hi guys!
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>>>>>
>>>>> You should definitely inform the relevant distros to bundle
>>>>> polyglot
>>>>>
>>>> with xboard.
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>>>> Unfortunately they do not consider XBoard dependent on Polyglot,
>>>> because XBoard can also be used just as an interface for playing on
>>>> freechess.org. In which case you don't need Polyglot at all.
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