On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:00:36PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:08:01AM -0500, Christopher Shelton wrote: > >> I am having a problem with SCID running on my Mac. (OS X 10.5.6) When I > >> open the program, it complains that it cannot open the bases or the books > >> directory. I can't use the options menu to set new locations, beause I get > >> a "Bad directory" error. This seems to be related to the fact that I > >> cannot > >> play games against the engine due to an "Index 0 out of range" error. Has > >> anyone else had these problems? > > > > I got something similar using a FreeBSD port of Scid, which was recently > > updated to 3.6.26 (while the previous version I was using, 3.6.1, worked > > fine). > > > > I did not investigate any further apart from notifying the port maintainer > > (through someone else). > > Could you try with a clean configuration? Just try > > mv $HOME/.scid $HOME/_scid > > and rerun Scid. Scid should then regenerate it's config and should work > properly. If so, its not a bug in Scid but an incompatiblity with an old > config.
You are quite right. I got the book back by doing this. Dou think the incompatibility problem can be somehow solved (maybe by detecting the older version and doing the conversion)? Right now it would look funny to say: If you upgrade from 3.6.1, first copy the configuration out of the way, then start up scid, then restore all your settings as you remember them, then copy the bookmarks file from the old configuration to the new fresh one etc... A couple of other things which I noticed that are pretty annoying: A lot of files are installed with world-writable permissions. In many cases this is completely unwarranted (like, .gif files). In some cases there is a plausible reason for this: scid tries to write something into bases/matein* files when one goes through tactical exercises. This is, however, an extremely bad style for (potentially multi-user) Unix systems. Again, some sort of a workaround seems warranted - like copying those files to ~/.scid directory upon first start or something. Sorry for not being able to contribute anything but bitching - my Tcl skills are practically non-existent. Thanks and cheers, \Anton. -- There is no beauty in entropy. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
