Ed,
Why is that confusing for you?
to be precisely, i wrote that 'it's a bit confusing' (wouldn't some say so?)
suggesting that it can be a bit confusing (for some people),
but it didn't say it's so confusing for *me* (although i do
consider the whole situation a bit unclear)
Good if you write a new polyglot with merge-book;
probably polyglot is also listed on your (Rebel)site.
PS as for what i consider to be a bit unclear sometimes in opensource:
sure, forks are possible (although i'm not a github expert); but
anyway this is the general (sub)forum, not the programmers
part; so imho it would be nice for 'ordinary' users to know where
the original stuff is, for whatever computer chess or other
software;maybe it's indicated when a fork is made, but it's not
always clear for me (for SF development versions, although i'm
not an ordinary 'user', i usually look at abrok.eu rather than
to these hundreds of forks, etc).
And in the sporadic situations i do look at github, the first
thing i learned to look at, is 'release'. Yes, i have a compiler
(codeblock) but even then it's sometimes a bit of a puzzle,
and why should 'users' (not even talking about myself) compile
everything for themselves ? In the good old crafty time there
were always 'fast' compiles made by others (eg. jim ablett)
PS2 talking about tool GUI's, there's pgn-extract, which is a bit
outdated, then someone talked about polyglot-tolerant, don't see
a GUI after quick inspection (some bat files, e,g. merge.bat (!))
and i know about the Poly1.7 tool by Rebel (which i in fact used to
...make a gambit book, but as far as i know there's no merge-book
feature in it (because there's polyglot somewhere else, i presume)
