Contributions and log file

Hi,

Many thanks to Frans and Manuel for their contributions. I hope they 
will be helpful for all to develop new impressive robots!

Concerning the log file problem, as you may have noticed the result.zip 
is not any more available (rather, it is empty) because this file was 
exploding in size due to some competitors making an extensive usage of 
System.out.println. Hence Webots is now launched with redirecting the 
stdout to /dev/null... However, as Frans noticed, it might be useful to 
have the match supervisor comments, like who won, why (time out or knock 
out) max distance achieved by the robots, etc. So from today, the match 
supervisor comments will be stored in the result.zip file and the 
System.out.println produced by the competitors will be sent out to the 
trash (/dev/null). This will avoid filling out my hard disk and save 
bandwith to people downloading the result.zip file. As Frans reminded, 
it is always possible for competitors to store data in your personal 
log.txt file which is compressed into log.zip after the round has 
completed (or in your memory.dat file, which is not compressed and is 
rather intended to be re-read by the controller itself to save some 
state or some information acquired dynamically like learning).

BTW, I saw that the reaction of Coyote was fast and efficient! He is now 
back to #1... How will Kimaita handle this ?... ;)

-Olivier


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