From: Sam Moore <matches@ucc.asn.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:12:05 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: Progress?
X-Git-Url: https://git.ucc.asn.au/?p=progcomp2013.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=877034f05346e24fdf822f6e6149ad50d891f030;hp=877034f05346e24fdf822f6e6149ad50d891f030

Progress?

- Fixed .dll files that were the wrong ones for cx_freeze win32
- Created "internal" agents, and made AgentBishop one of them
- Implemented terrible wrapper class that runs an internal agent in a seperate python process
  - This is for when timeouts are used
  - select == better than threads
  - TimeoutPlayer appears to not work properly anyway
- Tested win32 version (script and frozen binary)
  - ExternalAgent seems to break
  - TimeoutPlayer seems to break (even more than normal)
  - Pretty much everything breaks actually
    - More things seem to break with the frozen binary than with the script
    - Amazingly the pygame interface doesn't break, just the fancy threading/subprocess/socket/file related stuff
  - Somehow, the InternalAgents, ie: AgentBishop were working
  - So windows users can play the python sample agents, but otherwise the program is pretty useless

- Implemented the --log and --file arguments
  - Get an error if the game hasn't actually finished when using --file, should probably fix
    - It might be cool to let people use --file for a set number of moves, and then continue play from that position
      - Would need more work...

- When graphics are disabled, the game still works
  - But I need to test it on a server that doesn't have pygame at all

TODO: Finish the qchess program and actually work on setting up the competition.
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