Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-17 Thread Steve A
Alan - haha. Ben wrote > This needs to be addressed: > > The sortcache code is great and credits go to Gerd Well , i am wrong for calling it a cache. It is a index array that allows sorting of the filter. Yes - it is a great feature. It dropped my jaw when i saw it too. But after several chang

[Scid-users] save pgn as database (SCIDvsMAC)?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, I downloaded a pgn database from here:http://icofy-blog.de/ (I could not use the SCID download as every time I tried to decompress the .7z file, it said "Error: Archive not complete", or some related rubbish. My question is, given that I have these very large PGN files, everytime I open SCID

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-17 Thread Alan Whiteman
On 03/17/2013 01:35 PM, Steve A wrote: [... snip ...] > Fulvio is all talking about a new team, but bug reports and patches to > this mailing list have been consistently ignored by Fulvio and Alex > for ages. I have taken the fixes and already applied them. Now he asks > me to come back to the

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-17 Thread Ben St-Pierre
This needs to be addressed: > The sortcache code is great and credits go to Gerd who wrote the most part of it (i just added multi-threading; i hope i gave him the right credits in the commit log). (...) I remember that the first time i tried the code i thought: if Chessbase will found this they

Re: [Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
No, I was not aware! Brilliant! On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Fred Mellender wrote: > Are you familiar with http://icofy-blog.de/? > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jai Dayal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have any databases they've composed and would share? > Currently, > > I'm dow

Re: [Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-17 Thread Fred Mellender
Are you familiar with http://icofy-blog.de/? On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jai Dayal wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any databases they've composed and would share? Currently, > I'm downloading TWIC archives; I might write a script to automatically do > this, I suppose... > > --

[Scid-users] Any free databases out there?

2013-03-17 Thread Jai Dayal
Hi, Does anyone have any databases they've composed and would share? Currently, I'm downloading TWIC archives; I might write a script to automatically do this, I suppose... -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make y

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-17 Thread Steve A
Fulvio wrote: >> Sorry, I'm not sure I understand correctly: >> are you saying that you are against letting new developers work on scid? Steven wrote: >No.. It's free software and people are all welcome to work on it. >But as far a making a quality software release, i'm not sure they will >be very