[WT-support] Putting the contest compilation out in thecommunity?

[Ron Castro]

...and I was hoping to participate in the "Worked All Left-Handed Serbian Train Conductors QSO Party"!

           Ron  N6IE
       www.N6IE.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stefan Pfeiffer 
  To: support at win-test.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [WT-support] Putting the contest compilation out in thecommunity?


  Hello!

  Being a programmer myself, i want to give you my opinion on that point. Although i would not mind if it would be included in Win-Test, i doubt i will be. It might be easy to integrate a certain number of "Building blocks" strung together by a config-file, thus covering a good chunk of the contests out there. But no one knows what "building blocks" are needed tomorrow. There are so many contests with so many (obscure) rules out there, that are difficult to capture in a standardized way. Just take WAE with its QTC-system, for example. How to code that into a "config file"? You still have to let Win-Test be aware of "QTC-style" contests, let them be parameterized as you wish. This example might be "too trivial", as WAE is a "big" contest, but there is similar stuff in 100s of smaller contests we never heard of, from obscure exchanges to bonus points for working some special kind of station, or your ability to form a keyword or sentence out the first letter of the name of each station worked, instantly doubling your score.

  Such rules out of the usual "qsopoints times mults = score" system can only be captured with some kind of script interpreting or incorporating compiled code like DLLs, not just "setup files". But - Win-Test v4 will incorporate Lua-scripting-support, perhaps one can use Lua to describe the rules of the "1296MHz All-Monaco RTTY-Sprint-Party for YLs". We will see :-).

  Vy 73 es 55 de Stefan, DL1ELY (luckily eligible for an free update to v4)





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