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Subject: Re: Zappa Retail: No UCI?

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 12:07:43 09/04/05

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On September 04, 2005 at 13:47:25, A. Cozzie wrote:

>On September 04, 2005 at 12:58:38, A. Cozzie wrote:
>
>>>Is the rumour true, that Zappa 2.0 retail will NOT be sold as UCI engine and
>>>therefore NOT be used under Fritz, Shredder and Arena but only under its own
>>>GUI?
>>
>>It is still under debate.  Basically we don't trust certain interfaces that set
>>your hash to 1MB and do other evil things of that nature.  Vincent especially
>>thinks that such trickery will only increase in future versions.
>>
>>His solution is to not support UCI.  My solution is to not care.  A possible
>>compromise solution may be to release with WB2 support only.
>>
>>>If so: Who shall buy it then?
>>
>>Realistically speaking the number of people that would use the engine in fritz
>>is very small.  Also, the new gui really is rather nice.
>>
>>anthony
>
>I suggest all you people email Vincent.  You are preaching to the choir.
>
>anthony



Sorry to say this, but what you said makes NO sense. At all.  You might as well
bury your engine in a pharaoh's tomb for that matter...  In case it isn't UCI,
of course.




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