[computer-go] TSGL version 2 - Pattern Matcher & Editor

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I'm at the point where I could put out a beta-version of the TSGL
that would include a pattern-matcher and pattern-editor. Writing software is
one thing, making it ready to be used by others and have it in a shape
suitable to publish is just as much work again, if not more.

The editor is not much. I'm not particularly good at making GUI components
and I haven't put much effort in this one, so it's very basic but it works.
The pattern-matcher has been discussed at length here before...

Getting to this point brings me to a few practical issues regarding
distribution. At first I was using an EJB to handle the persistence of the
data. But I can hardly expect everyone who uses it to setup their own EJB
application server. So I extracted the Hibernate part and made it work
stand-alone, which is very easy to do. But it still uses a (MySQL) database,
which I can't include of course. I can include some SQL scripts to create
and populate some tables, but that's about as far as I can go.

This means it's not possible to make it work out of the box as I did with
the first version. Unless I start looking at solutions like HyperSonic, but
that will take me some more time.

Also, this version is quite a bit bigger than the previous one. This will
probably mean I'll need to redistribute it more often with updates,
bug-fixes etc. So I'm wondering if I should put it under SourceForge or
something like that. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on this?



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