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Subject: Re: I've just finished my Winboard Tournament Manager

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:53:17 06/20/00

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On June 20, 2000 at 17:12:25, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>  So you need to have Access installed too.
>>
>
>Ugh.
>
>>  So, I'd like to hear ideas for making this tool useful for everybody. The
>>sources will be free for anyone who wants to improve it or make it more
>>standard.
>>
>>  José C.
>
>
>Sounds like a great tool, and I would love use it, but not if it means I have to
>go out and buy a copy of MS Access.

With a developer's licence, an Access runtime can be distributed.

>Why does this tool need such sophisticated database features?  If it can
>automatically run a winboard tournament and write the results to a file, that
>alone would be incredibly useful.

Using a database is orders of magnitude simpler.
Using a flatfile for a database is positively stone-aged.

It could probably be converted to C or Java and ODBC/JDBC pretty easily.  Then
you could connect to any database you like, including free ones like Postgres95




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