Re: [Scid-users] Best way to get bugs fixed? (was ... 16.7mio game limit.)

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
Am I right with my reasoning? ... below ... On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:37:56PM +0100, stephen williamson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 02:04:29PM +0100, stephen williamson wrote: > > Actually I think there was quite a lot of interest a couple of months > > ago. Many people offered to contribut

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread stephen williamson
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 02:04:29PM +0100, stephen williamson wrote: > Actually I think there was quite a lot of interest a couple of months > ago. Many people offered to contribute (myself included) who had had > no involvement in the project before. One guy, Joao I think, offered > to project ma

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 02:04:29PM +0100, stephen williamson wrote: > Actually I think there was quite a lot of interest a couple of months > ago. Many people offered to contribute (myself included) who had had > no involvement

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread stephen williamson
Actually I think there was quite a lot of interest a couple of months ago. Many people offered to contribute (myself included) who had had no involvement in the project before. One guy, Joao I think, offered to project manage, but it looks like that has all disappeared down a black hole.

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:28:22AM +0200, Nicolai Lissner wrote: > > Therefore I would vote for SI5 and using 32bit integer instead 24bit :) > :) I don't think a vote gets you anywhere. If you can come up with a suitable patch, it is more likely to be accepted. Remember, someone has to actually

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread Nicolai Lissner
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:18:04AM +0200, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Sounds like it should be changed only if one is going for some si5. > > Just out of shear curiosity: is 16.7e06 indeed a "real world" limit? > I mean, are there larger databases of /sensible/ games? AFAIK even > cb online is only

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-21 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 04/19/2013 05:04 PM, Fulvio wrote: Hi! >> I've found scid has a limit of 16.7 million (2^24) games per database, >> is there an easy way to change this to 32bit or something? >> >> > Easy: i don't think so. > > However the code already use a 32bit uint as gameNumberT. > I looked at src/index.h

Re: [Scid-users] installation problems on F18

2013-04-21 Thread Luciano
I am also a Fedora user and I never had problems with the packages available on http://katrine.lpi.ru/kalenkov/ After downloading, move to the destination directory and then : # yum -y install scid-4.4-1.fc18.i686.rpm scid-books-4.4-1.fc18.noarch.rpm scid-sounds-4.4-1.fc18.noarch.rpm Luciano Saler