On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 23:10 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 23:01 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > > > > cgos_player color name > > example: cgos_player white Lazarus > > > > cgos_elo color elo_rating > > example: cgos_elo white 1739? > > > > and since cgos does use kyu/dan, I don't want to specify > > a command at this time, but if I do it would likely be: > > > > cgos_rank color rank
> Also, I forgot that I want to be able to specify the cgos > game number, so I would also add this command: > > cgos_gameid some_integer > > Instead of polluting the namespace with a lot of domain-specific set/get commands, you could wrap them all into one 'umbrella' command, eg 'info' cgos-info opponent_name Aunt Maud cgos-info opponent_rank 10k cgos-info game_date 20070304132355 cgos-info game_name [EMAIL PROTECTED] cgos-info pressure 1013hPa This naming for games is similar to what SMTP does with email, and will allow you to run multiple instances of the server. > It is likely there will be more than 1 instance of the > CGOS server (perhaps 1 for different board sizes) but I > hesitate to try to distiguish between them with more GTP > commands. So I would leave it up to the program authors > to keep track of which server a game Id belongs to. > > It's of course possible to send this all in one uber > command: > > cgos_game_info gameID white_name white_elo black_name black_elo > > but it does not seem to be in the spirit of GTP. > According to the GTP-draft, you are supposed to use hyphens, not underscores to prefix your private extensions. (I don't like them either, would have preferred periods or semicolons.) HTH, AvK _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
