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

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le 18/08/2014 17:22, Bill Bogstad a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Bruno Coudoin
> <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> I'm wondering if it might be better to use an interface designed for
> program<->program
> communications rather then one designed for humans.   XChess for example can
> talk to GNU Chess and apparently uses an interface intended for
> programmatic use.   This page has a link to a Chess Engine
> communications protocol document which might help:
>
> http://www.tim-mann.org/engines.html
>
> If there are in fact lots of chess "engines" out there that use this
> protocol, it would make GCompris less dependent on GNU Chess as well.
>

Hi,

This is exactly what I use but as you can see this is a textual 
interface, not an API. They mention several version of it and maybe we 
could update GCompris to parse and generate the latest version.

Bruno.