Re: [gnugo-devel] Re: GTP issue in GNU Go 3.5.5?

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Dan wrote:
> Anders Kierulf wrote:
> 
> > Daniel,
> >  
> > I've been told that the newest version of GNU Go (3.5.5) doesn't work
> > properly with the GTP protocol as implemented in SmartGo. What happens is
> > that in response to my first query of its name, it returns (with _
> > representing line breaks):
> >  
> >     GNU Go Version 3.5.5_=1 GNU Go__
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> >     =1 GNU Go__
> > 
> > >From the GTP specs, this looks like a bug to me.
> 
> I was unable to reproduce this.
> 
> $ gnugo --quiet --mode gtp
> name
> = GNU Go
> 
> version
> = 3.5.5
> 

The reason why you can't reproduce it is that you include the --quiet
option. The patch help_5_5.1 from January 25 introduced a bug by
always writing the version information to stdout, thereby breaking the
gmp and gtp interfaces unless --quiet is used. Patch later unless
someone beats me to it.

This is pretty bad. I think we should release 3.5.6 once this has been
fixed.

Thanks for the report, Anders.

/Gunnar