Re: [gnugo-devel] interested in helping GNU go

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

On 11/30/2011 01:41 AM, Alec Battles wrote:
> has anyone out there who may be reading this, at any point, tried
> making scripting language bindings (ie with SWIG) to the codebase? it
> seems that would be handy and fun for tinkering with stuff and tuning
> things. like maybe starting two daemons and having them talk to each
> other and be able to turn features on and off in real-time? is it just
> my imagination, or is that a good idea?

I don't think that has ever been seriously tried, although I'm certain
it has been considered from time to other.

In some part the kind of functionality you're thinking of may be
available from the GTP interface. See e.g. the various scripts in
interface/gtp_examples.

/Gunnar