On Monday 30 March 2009 20:00:49 Gary Campbell wrote:
> First observation: My guess is that we and possibly
> one or two others are all that are even reading this.
Well, there are 82 members in the YahooGroup. For all we know, some of them
may be reading this.
> Therefore, presenting our solvers to "nobody" is
> kind of an exercise in futility.
>
You are a sufficient audience too.
> Second: What I mean is I have a solver integrated
> into a free cell player much as yours and others are
> integrated into FCPro. This makes them accessible
> to the extent that they are easy to use and produce
> good and rapid solutions.
>
> I'm not sure what you are offering this latest version
> of your free cell solver to do. What does it give folks
> that isn't available in the FCPro version, or in my
> package which is available at
> http://numin8r.us/programs
My solver gives an API (as it is compilable as a dynamic or static library),
and a command-line interface that are both available for use by any interested
party. It exposes a lot of functionality that is not directly available with
its FC-Pro integration, and many people may find it more convenient. The
Windows package is just the binaries of the source, that is also downloadable
from
http://fc-solve.berlios.de/, and can be studied, modified, re-
distributed, and almost any other acceptable use.
I should note that Freecell-Solver-2.20.0 has progressed beyond its release
that was integrated into the latest version Freecell Pro, and so it is
advisable to use it instead.
>
> Is it merely an example of your programming
> standards and practices, or is it a free cell solver
> with significant added value in its own right?
See above. Its API and CLI may allow things that the FC-Pro integration (or
any other embedding of it) may not allow, and so may prove useful to
interested users or developers.
>
> If there is anybody "out there" who wants to try
> our solvers for whatever reason, they can do so.
Yes, by downloading the binaries and running them, or downloading the source,
compiling it and then running it. I still make releases available.
>
> I'm, of course, curious how they would compare
> them, and to what uses they put either of them.
Yes, if you're interested in feedback I received about my solver from other
people, you may wish to read some of the documentation on:
http://fc-solve.berlios.de/docs/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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