Re: [gnugo-devel] Reorientation

[Gunnar Farneback]

> The simplest thing I can think of is to have a file called
> regression/orientation.gtp which just consists of one gtp
> command 'orientation 1' which is automatically included by
> regress.sh and eval.sh.
> 
> Then if you want to run the regressions in another
> orientation you edit the file. 
> 
> There's a serious drawback to this simple scheme which I think makes
> it unacceptable, that you could forget that you've edited
> the file. 
> 
> So we'd actually like to have eight commands:
> 
> make orientation_1, ... , make orientation_8
> 
> One implementation would use eight files called
> orientation_1.gtp, ... , each containing a single gtp command
> setting the orientation. Then 'make orientation_3' would first
> copy orientation_3.gtp to orientation.gtp, then make all
> batches.

If you want to send a string to the engine, it's not exactly necessary
to write it in a file first.