On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:55, Arend Bayer wrote:
Well there is a little bit of an issue with the GTP-to-GMP bridge, It requires a java module for accessing the serial port, which a) doesn't seem to be part of the standard Java installations, b) isn't even officially supported under Linux (can be installed using some wrappers around the solaris versions of the module).
Maybe Markus Enzenberger can correct me if I am wrong.
It's probably still easier than implementing GMP, but...
the serial port is considered to be legacy hardware in Java, you have to install the Communications API (and on Unix also the actual driver implementations).
I agree that this is somewhat painful.
There are however some adventages of using the bridge:
- In C/C++, accessing the serial port is platform dependent, so using the bridge allows you to keep your Go engine portable.
- GMP will die sooner or later anyway, because most of the new notebooks don't have a serial port anymore, but all of them have a network port. if that is so, the bridge saves the time for implementing a legacy protocol and keep that code out of your engine.
- Markus