Michal Rudolf wrote:
Hi!
> Even better will be guessing proper mode (UCI versus
> *board) of course, but this requires a bit more work.
The downside of this is, that it requires to start each
engine if you enter config, and actually, as you can not be
sure to know what the user did (imagine renaming phalanx to
rybka e.g. ;) you'd have to start the engine every time the
GUI config is changed. As launching the engine is a bit time
consuming this is actually quite ugly (Jose uses this
approach, e.g.). Considering you'd only want to change some
personality settings for serious game etc.
If firing up the engine woule not be an issue, I think
engine mode is easy to guess. Just send "uci" and if you get
"uciok", well its uci, if not its xboard. You can (but IMHO
you don't have to) send xboard to crosscheck and "protocol
2" to check which version, but well.
One could proably avoid starting each engine by checksuming
the engines binary and store the value launching the engine
only if the checksum changes.
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