Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 18:40:27 06/20/00
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On June 20, 2000 at 17:53:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. > I don't disagree. I'm just wondering how much database-like functionality this thing really needs. You won't hear any complaints from me as long as the automated winboard tournament director functionality works! :)
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