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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake
I think doing this would be best for FIRST because it would eliminate the need to be able to execute a program to create match schedules. Instead anyone with a text editor and a printer could produce a fine schedule quickly. A simple, optional, runs-almost-anywhere, Java program could make the process nearly painless, would be more portable than a .net program, and would ice the cake.
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It's actually not a .Net program. It's written in very portable C. The download includes both Windows and Mac OS X versions. It would be easy to recompile it for any platform that supports an ANSI C compiler.
I couldn't figure out a way to get the latest version of Visual Studio to produce an executable that doesn't require the very latest version of the C runtime libraries. That's a problem with VC, not an inherent dependency of the program.
It's pretty easy to generate the schedule with our program: just give it the list of team numbers in a text file, hit enter, and wait a few seconds or a minute for the schedule to pop out. It you don't like that one, do it again.