Re: computer-go: Engineering (was: Most simple Go rules)

[Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At the moment I'm working with some friends on a solution to develop and
> deploy EJB enterprise software more easily and more cheaply. As a pilot
> project we made a game-server for several different kind of games,
> including Go of course.

Now that already sounds a lot better. Not only could you deploy this EJB as a 
netwide server, people could use it at tournaments, replicate it for 
performance, plug it into their own programs as a scoring module (depending 
on your license of course :)


> The interface to the game-server is fairly straightforward and it can also
> be accessed through HTTP requests, so it's completely language independent.
> The problem is though that the XML that's passed to the HTTP requests (and
> back) is rather ad-hoc and should probably be replaced by something

This is the crux of the problem. A couple of us are working on a standard 
game format in XML right now, but noone is working on program interfaces..

As for GMP compatibility, it was not that good an idea to expose programs to 
a protocol in the first place, they should have been exposed to standard 
interfaces. Now they're all tied in.. I think this should be rectified rather 
than addressed through compatibility.

Christian