Re: computer-go: Re: IGS client server protocol.

[Nils Lohner <lohner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <199910131700.KAA28038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jean-loup Gailly 
writes:
>As far as I know, the most complete description of the protocol is
>in the files goserver.l and gointer.y of the IGS client xgospel, which
>I maintain. But understanding those files requires minimum knowledge
>of regular expressions, lex and yacc. The xgospel sources are available
>on my go page http://gailly.net/go.html
>

As the complete sources to NNGS are available at <http://nngs.cosmic.org/src/
>, perhaps a group of people can look at it, decide on a standard, well 
defined protocol, and implement it and distribute the interface code and 
documentation?  I know Bill Schubert (author of cgoban) was working on a 
protocol as well... I haven't heard how it's doing though.

Regards, 
Nils.