Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Bannister
Hey Guys, Could you stop posting in HTML, and also please stop top posting: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:02:31PM -0800, Alan Whiteman wrote: [...] >On 01/03/13 14:27, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: [...] -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will hav

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gregor Cramer
Some more points to Scidb: > What I saw last from Scidb there was no database maintenance, > no filtering, no trees. Instead FICS and PDF-Export seem to be > a goal… No, that is definitively not the main goal of Scidb. But developing software is very, very time consuming, and it needs some time t

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
As far as I can tell, scidvspc has all these things. On 01/03/13 15:51, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: What I saw last from Scidb there was no database maintenance, no filtering, no trees. Instead FICS and PDF-Ex

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gregor Cramer
Hello, as the developer of Scidb I like to answer to some points. > The developer of scidb came to the same conclusion but starting from > scratch is also no good idea. Initially I started to re-design Scid (in fact I've implemented the SVG graphic firstly in Scid), but I gave up after some week

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hello, just take this example. When I started with scid I could set up a filter for the black games of Kasparov. Once I have opened a tree view on the same base a move of the board did replace this Kasparov filter by the tree filter. This is what I mean. OK, you could set it u

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
On 01/03/13 13:20, Ben St-Pierre wrote: Videos would be good. The videos I've found were quite good and allowed me to get started in scid. The kicks-ass.org part was there because it's a free ad-on. I admit it was crass. I

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
On 01/03/13 14:27, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: [ ... ] No alternative for Chessbase, no functionality to manage large databases and to allow efficient usage of its content. This is a most strange sentiment. scidvspc works perfect with a 5,000,000 g

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hello, I do not think that bad documentation is the major problem of scid. I cannot remember looking into documentation of Chessbase. Problem with scid is that it implements thousands of features all of them working sometimes and somehow and sharing some code. There is no clear concept any

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Ben St-Pierre
Videos would be good. Online docs too. And if we could dream, an F1 command that would work like Textmate would be great too! (Textmate helps you find the command you want in the menu list.) There is nothing concurrent about all this. We just need to get things organized, or leave them disorga

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread f...@libero.it
Hi everyone and happy new year! I'm surprised to see such a burst of emails after a lot of time! About docs, are you aware of scid's tutorial videos on youtube? Such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdkJg9jrIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZPltcSyjo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjFQmaLTDo

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 01/03/2013 06:20 PM, Matthias Luckhardt wrote: Hi! It's been a time since you read anything from me, anyway. And I didn't have the time to follow the full thread or the list for some time. >> I disagree on your approach. The developers should focus on the advancement >> of the code and other

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Matthias Luckhardt
> I disagree with you here about barriers. I think developers can join the > community and contribute to the project if they really want to. If you can't > afford the time and rather pay for a program, then that's the way to go. But > why complain? I'm not complaining at all. For me personally, wh

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
I thought of buying Scid.kicks-ass.org. Any suggestions? I have rented a web space that gives me a domain name for free. Not sure about the "kicks-ass" part... too crass or too pretentious. What's the domain for? -

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
On 01/03/13 09:20, Matthias Luckhardt wrote: I disagree on your approach. The developers should focus on the advancement of the code and other volunteers should be sought out to flesh out the documentation. Well, we could discuss this issue forever,

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Mark Morss
I apologize for my ignorance, but it would be useful to hear an explanation of these forks, or to be pointed to an existing one. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps,

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Ben St-Pierre
The sentence eaten was: And Shane's pseudo HTML into tcl is quite minimal. On Jan 3, 2013 12:34 PM, "Ben St-Pierre" wrote: > OK. So there's a need for documentation. > > I'll try to see what I can do. > > My main beef with it is that I need to open code files and compile the > thing to see some

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Ben St-Pierre
OK. So there's a need for documentation. I'll try to see what I can do. My main beef with it is that I need to open code files and compile the thing to see some result. Editing became a pain quite fast, and Shane's Perhaps we should think of building an online reference that gets compiled into

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Matthias Luckhardt
> I disagree on your approach. The developers should focus on the advancement > of the code and other volunteers should be sought out to flesh out the > documentation. Well, we could discuss this issue forever, and I tend to disagree on this matter: To me, proper documentation is just as important

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Whiteman
Please see comments below. On 01/03/13 02:57, Pthagonal wrote: Scid vs. PC surely has very few bugs now as i'm still working on it every other day for the last few years. My early efforts were a bit raw, but latest release is very solid. [ ... ]

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Pthagonal
> Scid vs. PC surely has very few bugs now as i'm still working on it every > other day > for the last few years. My early efforts were a bit raw, but latest release > is very solid. Having just installed Scid vs. PC (or rather Mac) a few days ago and having (attempted to) play(ed) around with a