Re: [computer-go] how to use GTP in place of GMP

[Arend Bayer <arend.bayer@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Nick Wedd wrote:

> Let's assume that the sponsors have provided a bunch of Windows PCs on a LAN,
> and that I have six months to tell potential entrants what is required of
> them.  What might I tell them, and what will I have to provide myself?  Assume
> that I can get details of the LAN, let's suppose it is category 5 cable with
> five twisted pairs, and a 100Mb router;  I don't know whether this is
> relevant.
> 
> Arend wrote
> "'Protocol will be GTP, have your program listen on port 12345.' Is that any
> more difficult?".
> This does not mean much to me.  Should I expect it to be meaningful to all
> potential entrants? 

a) An author of a program that can accept GTP via stdin/stdout does NOT
have to know what this means, because he can just use gtpserver from the
gogui suite.
b) I would expect it to be meaningful to any programmer.
c) I would expect _good_ support for implementing this in any OS.

> Does it imply that I have to create something which talks
> on these ports 12345?

No. This is already created. See Solution 1 in my mail explaining how to
use gogui to do this.

> I don't have a referee program.  I probably don't have the skill to write one.
> Same for proxy scripts.
You don't have to write one. Gogui+twogtp is exactly what you need.

> I can see that GTP is not going to supersede GMP.  Those who have advocated
> GTP as a replacement for GMP have missed the point that it is a
> different-shaped animal.  Maybe something that _uses_ GTP will supersede GMP -
> when someone tells me what this is, I shall listen.

I really don't know how to explain it in more detail than in my e-mail
about using gogui. The hardware details really don't matter (apart from
the fact that machines brought by participants must have matching
network hardware, of course). In fact, when reading this e-mail I really
get to wonder whether you read my e-mail about gogui at all.

Arend


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