Macintosh compiles of open source chess engines

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello MikeB,

could all of your Mac OS X compiled builds (>open source chess engines) be hosted on one website, please?

Ron who has the responsibility for the CCWiki Chess Engine List http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=c ... ngine_list told me that he is waiting for you to establish such a homepage. He is not going to add lots of DropBox links and then have to worry if they go dead.

In my opinion other cloud storage systems like Mediafire have the same problems, cf. explanations here:

http://knowledgebase.mediafire.com/article.php?id=100
http://www.mediafire.com/policies/data_retention.php

An extra link to CCWiki Macintosh Engine List http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=c ... ngine_list
would be no problem, of course.

I am not a Macintosh user, but what do other members of this forum think about such a suggestion?

Best wishes,
Norbert

[hgm]

Well, it doesn't sound like a website that would attract huge amounts of traffic. I rent a (quite minimal) VPS that I use on the domain winboard.nl for hosting the Variant ICS, which we use for the monthly engine blitz tourney. I also installed a light-weight HTTP server there, with as only content a (usually obsolete) mirror of my on-line git repository.

I think I have 10GB of disk space on that VPS, which is currently mostly unused. I guess this should be more than enough for hosting a few Chess-engine binaries. I have no Mac either, so I could not produce any binaries myself, but I am sure we have Mac users here that are capable and willing to produce them.

If we are going to make an organized attempt like this, however, I think we should take the opportunity to turn it into an integrated packaging system, which offers the engines in a uniform way suitable for installing on OS X. And in particular complies with an OS-X version of the plugin standard, so that engines installed would be automatically registered with the GUIs that could use them.

[Richard Allbert]

Here's a great resource of open source Mac OS engines, many thanks to Julien.

http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/C ... gines.html