On 4/1/06, Inge Wallin inge@lysator.liu.se wrote:
On Friday 24 March 2006 00.04, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:
To get things moving again I propose finalizing the version 2 specification by the radical approach of simply removing the empty Examples and Credits sections from the draft, then opening up development of version 3.
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In an attempt to help development of version 3 along I've set up a Wiki at http://trac.gnugo.org/gtp. It's currently bare but you can help filling it with relevant information yourselves.
Would you be violently opposed to converting GTP from the Go Players Protocol to the [board] Game Players Protocol? It's some time now since I did any games programming (been mainly busy with real work and KOffice), but before that, I adapted and implemented GTP for at least Amazon and Othello. I also have a working controlling engine (twogtp) for those games.
The main GTP structure is exceptionally easy to adapt, and it would be nice if the specification could be restructured to allow for special cases for certain games.
There is also at least one other program that use GTP for other games than go, and that is Paul Pogonyshevs GUI client Quarry (which rocks, btw).
Ah yes, I had completely forgotten about this.
I think it would take some work to adapt the spec for this, so I would advocate pushing it to v3 (and releasing v2 as is).
I also have some Amazons code lying around that uses GTP. Inge and my programs have successfully played each other with his controller program (adapted from one of the GNU Go twogtp variants, iirc). So make that at least 4 programs ;)
Evan