[computer-go] Go library and other projects

[Mark Boon <tesujisoftware@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's been a while since I made my Go library available through 
SourceForge. I haven't really kept an eye on it and I assumed I would 
receive mail in case someone had questions or problems. Since 
SourceForge didn't update the activity data for quite a while I thought 
this project had disappeared into oblivion. When I recently checked the 
site again for the first time in a long time, it turned out there had 
been quite some activity after all. I don't know if 250+ downloads this 
year  indicates there are actually that many people working on 
computer-Go, but at least I never expected so many to be interested 
enough to download something you can't actually play or run. Maybe 
someone can shed some light on what that would actually mean in terms of 
real computer-Go activity?

Occasionally I still doodle a bit with the stuff I have, but I never 
have enough time to do something serious. I wouldn't mind adding some 
bits to my Go library, but without any feed-back it's hard to know what 
are the kind of things people would like to see added or improved. The 
following things are what I've been thinking of and playing with recently:

- Update the Go library to take advantage of the new possibilities of 
Java 5. Still a lot to do, potentially.
- New additions to the library. I still have plenty of interesting stuff 
that would add to a computer-Go framework.
- I have Goliath running on an EJB  server. I could polish up and 
publish a simple sample client to demonstrate how to access it. I 
imagine this could be useful to people who'd like to do testing against 
it. I can also see plenty of other uses  for  it... If there's any 
interest in this, let me know.
- Porting to J2ME turned out trivial, so I also have Goliath running on 
a mobile phone. Plays plenty fast too. Not sure yet where I could take 
this, could be something cool.

So if anyone has suggestions where I could direct the scarce hours I 
have to spend on computer-Go, let me know.

  Mark Boon
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