Re: [pbmserv] For linux- ***and windows-*** using xiangqi players!

[joss <joss@nekrodomos.net>]

Hello Jian,

I am sorry that the program is currently unusable for you. As I said, it 
 was written more as an exercise for myself in learning Ruby.

I have played a little bit with `rubyscript2exe`, which is intended to 
roll up the necessary libraries into a single program. Unfortunately, I 
have not been able to make it work for this program so far.

I am currently quite busy, however if I find some spare time then I will 
make another attempt to put this program together in a convenient way 
for Windows users. Until then, I'm afraid it's downloading Ruby or using 
the ASCII board!

Joss

Jian wrote:
>         Hello joss and other players of xiangqi,
>
> I remain convinced that one would need that a utility which allows to 
> convert the ascii diagram or the list of the moves of the games of 
> xiangqi played on the PBM server for the computers which turns under 
> Windows.
> But this without being obliged to use a program such as Ruby who seems 
> to me very heavy compared with a very simple utility.
> I thus hope that a player who would know how to program this utility 
> made it.
> It would relaunch the game of xiangqi on the PBM server. This game is 
> practically more played on this site for the moment and it is indeed pity.
>
>                 Greetings
>
>                    Jian
>
> ==============================================
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > Sorry to keep spamming about this topic. This will be the last 
> > message, I hope.
> >
> > I just noticed that there was a bug in boardparse where a piece taking 
> > another piece wouldn't overwrite the old piece. I have now fixed this, 
> > and updated the downloads on the webpage. If you downloaded and tried 
> > this code, then you _really_ want the new version:
> >
> > http://www.pseudonymity.net/~joss/games/xiangqi/board_parse.html
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Joss
> >
> > joss wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have now had a chance to test the Xiangqi board parsing program 
> > > under Windows XP. I am happy to say that it seems to work perfectly 
> > > with the latest version of Ruby. I cannot test this, but I see no 
> > > reason why it won't work on other version of Windows that are 
> > > supported by Ruby.
> > >
> > > You do have to install Ruby first, however. This is not difficult, 
> > > but requires you to download about 20Mb of files. My apologies to 
> > > people with slow connections.
> > >
> > > I have updated the page at: 
> > > http://www.pseudonymity.net/~joss/games/xiangqi/board_parse.html to 
> > > include instructions for installing this program under Windows. Thank 
> > > you to the people that pointed out it would run in that environment 
> > > after all.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any (relevant) problems then I will be happy to try and 
> > > help you sort them out.
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > >
> > > Joss
> > >
> > >
> > > Jian wrote:
> > >
> > > >    Hello joss,
> > > >
> > > > I am a player of xiangqi and it has been a long time since I wait 
> > > > for an interface graphic as for the one that you propose to be able 
> > > > to play on the PBM server.
> > > > It is damage that you propose it only for the users of Linux. For my 
> > > > part, I use Windows XP and I think that most of the players use 
> > > > Windows.
> > > > The game of xiangqi is not practically more played on the PBM server 
> > > > probably because we have only diagrams ascii for the moment.
> > > > Would not it be possible that you study the possibility to propose 
> > > > us a graphic interface turning under Windows?
> > > > You can see examples for other games to : 
> > > > http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/dologin.php
> > > >
> > > >             Greetings
> > > >
> > > >                  jian (on PBM server)
> > > >
> > > > ==============================================
>
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