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


From: Paul Pogonyshev
Subject: Re: [gnugo-devel] Re: GTP issue in GNU Go 3.5.5?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:49:13 +0300
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Arend wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> How about silencing the copyright message for all modes except of
> ASCII-playing mode? GNU coding standards suggest it for interactive
> programs, which gnugo is only in ascii mode; I also find it pretty annoying
> in the sgf-decide modes. (And I don't see why we should by default
> clobber the xterm in which someone started a GUI to play against gnugo;
> I know of no other GNU program which does such a thing.)

Agreed.  I vote for this patch instead of the one I submitted.  This
basically completes standardization I started with buggy `help_5_5.1'.
Let's hope this patch has no flaws ;)

Paul




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