Re: polyglot package

[Wolfgang Gauf]

apt show xboard | grep Recommends
lists: fairymax, alsa-utils, xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi

Listing polyglot and uci2wb there would be an improvement.

Cheers & thanks for your efforts,
Wolfgang


On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:43:53 +0200
address@hidden wrote:

> It appears debian is running Polyglot 2.0.4:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=polyglot
> 
> They also run UCI2WB:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uci2wb
> 
> 
> 
> Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 7:27 pm schreef Joshua Pettus:
> > I wonder what version of polyglot they distibute.   There are all sorts
> > of versions floating arround as it never was a centralized project.  Havnt
> > we replaced polyglot with uci2wb anyway?  Is that a package?
> >
> > Regards
> > Josh Pettus
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 12:45 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 11:30 am schreef Wolfgang Gauf:
> >>
> >>> Hi guys!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> You should definitely inform the relevant distros to bundle polyglot
> >>>
> >> with xboard.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately they do not consider XBoard dependent on Polyglot,
> >> because XBoard can also be used just as an interface for playing on
> >> freechess.org. In which case you don't need Polyglot at all.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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