Re: [gnugo-devel] socket support for Windows: patch

[Arend Bayer]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004,  wrote:

> Paul wrote:
> > This is much more difficult to overcome than I expected.  The main
> > complication is around gprintf() that is used for e.g. "%1m" output.
> > It is completely unaware of the need to not use `stdio.h' functions.
> > Does anyone has any clever ideas?  With what I can think of, the
> > patch quickly starts spreading all over GNU Go.
> 
> I don't have any clever ideas but as a general comment I don't think
> we should go out of our way to support C environments which are so
> badly designed that you can't do anything useful with standard IO.

On the other hand, I think it would be useful to have a working version
of gtp.c that can easily be used for windows programs (that do not run
in DOS-mode as gnugo).

Arend