Re: computer-go: Go Text Protocol (GTP)

[Gunnar Farnebäck <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil wrote:
> I have some free time coming up - projects are slowing down - to work on a
> standards document for GTP. If no one else is already working on this, I'll
> take this up.

I'll have a lot of opinions on the technical details, but I could
certainly need help with the structure and actual writing of the
document.

> Gunnar, any problems with using your original email description of GTP as a
> starting point for this document?

There are currently four relevant sources documenting my view of how
the protocol should work, listed in order of availability.

1. The description in the message to this list, also available as
   http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gtp.txt.

2. The texinfo doc in GNU Go 2.7.247, more precisely the file
   doc/gtp.texi and to a smaller extent doc/regression.texi.

3. The source code and the comments in the files interface/gtp.c,
   interface/gtp.h, and interface/play_gtp.c in the GNU Go
   distribution.

4. The source code to gnugoclient-2.0.

Feel free to use whatever you can pick up from those.

Dan wrote:
> Maybe we should be setting up a mailing list for standardizing
> the gtp.

Ok, I'll do this. There will be an announcement when it's up and
running.

/Gunnar