[gcompris-devel] gcompri version: compris 13.11-1 chess dies unexpectedly

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le 17/08/2014 00:52, Robert Lewis a écrit :
> gnuchess 6.1.1-1 is installed on both a 32 bit and 64 bit machine along
> with Gcompri 13.11-1
>
> However, when I try to click on the Chess options in Gcompri I get:
>
> Error: The external program gnuchess dies unexpectedly.
>
> However, gnuchess does run on its own.  This is on Ubuntu 14.04 both 32 and
> 64 bit machines.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

To fully explain the situation,  the way we use GnuChess (console 
parsing) makes it hard to keep up with their changes. To overcome this 
situation I did froze a version of GnuChess within GCompris source code 
and this is the version that we support. Once installed it is named 
something like gcompris-gnuchess.

Sadly, Debian does not like us to provide another version of GnuChess 
and disabled the generation of gcompris-gnuchess and thus we use the one 
shipped by Debian and we crash.

I am not willing to fix this, it is too annoying to make a parser that 
can work with the different versions of GnuChess we may find on the 
different GNU/Linux distributions.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Bruno.