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Bug 382915 - games-board/knights feature request: chess engine flags
Summary: games-board/knights feature request: chess engine flags
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2011-09-14 07:58 UTC by tdr
Modified: 2011-09-14 19:08 UTC (History)
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Description tdr 2011-09-14 07:58:20 UTC
For human vs computer games, games-board/knights requires either gnuchess or craft chess engine to be installed at runtime. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge games-board/knights without gnuchess or crafty installed
2. run knights and select either chess engine as player 1
3. view the error
Actual Results:  
If neither games-board/gnuchess nor games-board/crafty are on the system, knights still lists both engines as available, even when neither one is.  If a human vs computer game is attempted, knights presents an error box stating that the (named engine) program could not start.

Expected Results:  
Couple of options:

Make non-installed chess engines unavailable from the chess engine drop down engine in-game. (could hand off to upstream?)

Depends on both engines (bad)

Add USE flags for gnuchess and crafty as runtime deps

Warn users if neither engine is picked



Couple of options:

Make non-installed chess engines unavailable from the chess engine drop down engine in-game. (could hand off to upstream?)

make both engines runtime deps (bad)

Add USE flags for gnuchess and crafty as runtime deps

Warn users if neither engine is picked
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-14 19:08:47 UTC
added a message that the end to match the xboard behavior.