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You know, nothing can be perfect from the first time, so I had to fix a few issues in a new upload. Well, for you, it makes no difference, since 1.8.0.1-1 never reached the archive, but these changes were needed so that epiphany and friends could properly build against xulrunner.

I also started filing wishlist bugs with patches to build some packages against xulrunner as soon as it gets into the archive. Galeon is undergoing. Next one might be kazehakase. Stay tuned.

Update: Patches for galeon, kazehakase, and devhelp sent.

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I wonder how long it will take to the ftp-masters to accept it. It seems the NEW queue is not as fast as it used to be. It's been a week I've been waiting for libxml2 and libxslt to get through, and they still haven't made it. If enough people is interested in the package before it comes out of NEW, I'll probably upload it in my repository.

I have a patch for epiphany-browser that I'll send soon to the BTS. I'll come up with a patch for yelp as well. Then, bye bye mozilla-browser.

I'm also going to build an unofficial firefox on top of xulrunner, and maybe upload it to experimental, so that we can have some feedback about that. I'll see with Eric about that.

People seem to still want to make big computers to beat chess masters, while Kasparov has been beaten by the upgraded Deep Blue, then nicknamed Deeper Blue, in 1997. But actually, what's the point ?
I mean, all it demonstrates is that brutal brute force is better than human. And now human has been beaten, what's the challenge ?

So, let's move on a bit and go for a real challenge : beat human at Go. You know, this simple game with simple rules but for which no computer has yet beaten average players. I'm not even saying advanced or masters, because computers are so boring and lame that strong players prefer to play humans.

And if they happen to want to use the brute force as they did for chess, well, they'd need a computer to which Deep(er) Blue would be an abacus.

More seriously, though, why isn't there more IA research on Go, now that Chess is more or less mastered ? Another thing that puzzles me is how come gnugo is so good compared to other Go programs, while free software Chess programs are so lame ?

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