ccGo

It's easier to code for what you want than to decide what you really want.

an IGS client written in C++

latest release: ccgo-0.3.6.3 (2008-04-22) - ChangeLog (2008-04-22)

General

ccGo is a program allows you to play go with gnugo on your computer or with other players on the IGS on the internet.

Features

low bandwidth IGS client (works fine in quiet mode)
GMP support, to play go with gnugo
SGF Go game record editor, works with format version FF4
written in C++ using gtkmm-2.0
picture board and stone images support
auto detect and display Chinese, Japanese characters

You can find a screen shot of my desktop running ccgo-0.3.4 here.

Goals

This is project for sharpening my programming skill. In writing this program I have the following goals in mind.

elegant code
easy to use
fast and responsive
robust and reliable

However, these are pretty subjective matters. So, don't be supprised if it's not as what you think!

Dependancy

To compile this program, you need the following working libraries

gtkmm-2.4 or newer
gconfmm-2.6 or newer
regexx-0.98.1 (no longer needed for ccgo-0.3.2 and above)

They are included in Debian unstable. And, you can find the corresponding RPMS packages from Fedora Extras.

Usage

To use it, you still need to be familiar with IGS text commands. ccgo only provides the UI in a need to be basis.

If you have problem connecting to IGS with ccGo or regularly get disconnected unexpectedly, please see this page.

Source

You can download the source files of ccGo from http://ccdw.org/~cjj/prog/ccgo/src/ .

Packages

Debian packages:

URL: http://ccdw.org/~cjj/files/debs/

To build the debian packages from source, you need to download

ccgo_x.x.x.orig.tar.gz
ccgo_x.x.x-y.diff.gz
ccgo_x.x.x-y.dsc

and build them with, e.g.,

dpkg-source -x ccgo_x.x.x-y.dsc cd ccgo-x.x.x debuild

provided that you have a working debuild environment and meet all dependency.

Fedora SRPMs:

URL: http://ccdw.org/~cjj/files/srpms/

Since version 0.3.1, a spec file is distributed within the tar.gz package. So, you can as well just download the tar ball and build a RPM binary package with the command:

rpmbuild -tb ccgo-x.x.x.tar.gz

Suggestions and Bugs

Suggestions and bug reports are welcome. Please direct them to the author.