Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread Gilbert Rebhan
pgeorges wrote: > The universal chess format already exists : PGN. And Scid and chessbase > (and nearly every chess software I am aware of, can import / export this > PGN format). yes of course, but what if you get a cbf | cbh file and you don't own a chessbase product like fritz | chessbase (l

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
Gilbert Rebhan a écrit : > pgeorges wrote: > >> Scid will never support natively *.cb? files but only be able to import >> them once for all, then use its own data structures (*.si? files). So >> why not simply use the intermediate format : PGN ? >> > > yup, use the pgn format as intersta

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread Gilbert Rebhan
pgeorges wrote: > Scid will never support natively *.cb? files but only be able to import > them once for all, then use its own data structures (*.si? files). So > why not simply use the intermediate format : PGN ? yup, use the pgn format as interstation works but only if you have a software tha

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
Gilbert Rebhan a écrit : > shiv shivaji schrieb: > [...] > > >> If we have a way to directly import (and possibly export CBF) from/to Scid, >> > then compatibility with chessbase be much easier. > >> I wanted to see what others think about CBF import/export within Scid. >> > > While

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
shiv shivaji a écrit : > I came across the following open source utility: CBUtils available > from > ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_src.zip . > Binary available from > ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_bin.zip . > > Of course, the binaries ar

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hi! > > > On my Suse distro I get a crash after "package require > > tdom" ... > > That's bad news... > > This is a stable SuSE? Or some of this Open-Ever-Beta > stuff? That is: could it just be a bug in SuSE? Probably > solved by some of the

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread Gilbert Rebhan
shiv shivaji schrieb: [...] > If we have a way to directly import (and possibly export CBF) from/to Scid, then compatibility with chessbase be much easier. > > I wanted to see what others think about CBF import/export within Scid. While cbf support would be nice, all modern chessbase stuff, f.e.

[Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

2008-03-07 Thread shiv shivaji
I came across the following open source utility: CBUtils available fromftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_src.zip . Binary available fromftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_bin.zip . Ofcourse, the binaries are for windows.However, the make file sh

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > On my Suse distro I get a crash after "package require > tdom" ... Would it be possible to incorporate the > necessary code in Scid ? As a workaround I wrote catch { > package require tdom } so Scid can be launched, but for > the least this exception should be ca

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > On my Suse distro I get a crash after "package require > tdom" ... That's bad news... This is a stable SuSE? Or some of this Open-Ever-Beta stuff? That is: could it just be a bug in SuSE? Probably solved by some of their updates? I guess you have the tdom package

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-07 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi Alexander, On my Suse distro I get a crash after "package require tdom" ... Would it be possible to incorporate the necessary code in Scid ? As a workaround I wrote catch { package require tdom } so Scid can be launched, but for the least this exception should be caught if no other solution is

Re: [Scid-users] Publishing info about CVS repo?

2008-03-07 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi, I added a word about CVS and I made an homepage at Sourceforge (that can't be more basic). Pascal 2008/3/7, Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Marcin Kasperski wrote: > > Hi! > > > Well, I decided to take a look at development version of > > scid2 in CVS > > You noted that Pascal

[Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! I just checked in the first version of internal Xfcc support for scid into cvs, ie. a pure tcl implementation not requiring any exteranl tools anymore (but I'll continue to allow for them as I feel interfaces the most important). As I did just translate my perl toolchain to tcl I expect it to

Re: [Scid-users] Publishing info about CVS repo?

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski wrote: Hi! > Well, I decided to take a look at development version of > scid2 in CVS You noted that Pascal just packed a recent version as beta? > and ... had noticeable problems to find it. Ups. > The website is not mentioning CVS repo in any way, bah - > it explicite s

[Scid-users] Publishing info about CVS repo?

2008-03-07 Thread Marcin Kasperski
Well, I decided to take a look at development version of scid2 in CVS and ... had noticeable problems to find it. The website is not mentioning CVS repo in any way, bah - it explicite says that there is no version on sourceforge. My suggestions: - add a sentence about CVS repository on the Downl