Bug 6575

Summary: critter, a chess UCI engine from Slovakia
Product: Mageia Reporter: Olivier Delaune <olivier.delaune>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia, n54
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: critter CVE:
Status comment:

Description Olivier Delaune 2012-06-26 08:36:38 CEST
Hello, could you package critter, a chess engine? Sources are available here: http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/ Thanks in advance.
Comment 1 Damien Lallement 2012-07-17 17:03:14 CEST
Hum, help me... I downloaded it and I don't know what to do next.

[dams@maximus SOURCES]$ ./critter-16a-64bit
Critter v1.6a 64-bit, by Richard Vida
hardware POPCNT enabled

Nothing happens.
What do I have to do to test it?

/me fells dummy! :-)

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Olivier Delaune 2012-07-20 09:55:13 CEST
In fact, I do not know, I created this bug report after the proposition of a chess gamer on mageialinux-online.org/ (http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-13026.php)
I did not check everything and it looks like this software is not a free software because I did not find the sources too. If so, I think we may close this bur report. Sorry for the noise. If I find the sources in the future, I will reopen it.
Comment 3 Damien Lallement 2012-07-20 13:18:37 CEST
Proprietary and 2 binaries: 
- critter-16a-64bit
- critter-16a-32bit
We can't package this kind of stuff.
Closing as INVALID.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 4 Kamil Rytarowski 2012-07-26 00:05:56 CEST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hum, help me... I downloaded it and I don't know what to do next.
> 
> [dams@maximus SOURCES]$ ./critter-16a-64bit
> Critter v1.6a 64-bit, by Richard Vida
> hardware POPCNT enabled
> 
> Nothing happens.
> What do I have to do to test it?
> 
> /me fells dummy! :-)

Adjust your Polyglot and use e.g. with Xboard (-fUCI -fcp NAME etc).

CC: (none) => n54

Comment 5 Kamil Rytarowski 2012-07-26 00:13:00 CEST
(In reply to comment #3)
> Proprietary and 2 binaries: 
> - critter-16a-64bit
> - critter-16a-32bit
> We can't package this kind of stuff.
> Closing as INVALID.

Why? I would like to have it in nonfree.

Richard Vida said: 
I don't think I could make a living from computer chess. For me it is only a hobby and Critter will be always free of charge.

http://www.schach-welt.de/interviews/richard-vida

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID => (none)

Comment 6 Damien Lallement 2012-07-26 11:04:33 CEST
Two binaries:
critter-16a-32bit
critter-16a-64bit
How would you package it?
With %ifarch?
Comment 7 Kamil Rytarowski 2012-07-26 23:27:18 CEST
(In reply to comment #6)
> Two binaries:
> critter-16a-32bit
> critter-16a-64bit
> How would you package it?
> With %ifarch?

Yes.

It's present in Cauldron.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 8 Damien Lallement 2012-07-27 00:37:56 CEST
Thank you Kamil. :-)