Decide
Posted August 17th, 2004 @ 08:42am by Erik J. Barzeski
Today I'm releasing the source code to a simple, goofy little app that we've used internally several times to make decisions when more than two criteria are involved. It's very easy to compare two things and decide which is better, and this process of decision-making is very much like a round-robin tournament wherein each team plays the other one on one. In this process, each criteria "plays against" the others. They're then ranked by the number of wins.
It's open source, but we retain all rights to its use, publication, etc. I'm taking suggestions on what to do with it - it'd be neat to have it rolled into fink or even Mac OS X (it does rely on Foundation after all), but I haven't got a clue how to go about getting those things accomplished. We'll change the licensing and whatnot once we figure all of this out.
At any rate, you can download the source as a .zip archive (six files, one of which is the project and the other of which is the man page) here. Please post comments here, or email me directly.
Update 2008-12-16: I've updated the URL to a current download location.
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Posted 17 Aug 2004 at 10:32am #
*Chuckles* This looks familiar. 😉
Posted 17 Aug 2004 at 11:16am #
Grumble...grumble...Fink users must include /sw/include (their Fink-created includes) in their search path...grumble...grumble.
Posted 17 Aug 2004 at 12:17pm #
Why the grumbles? Should every developer that releases sources to include fink and darwinports paths just in case?
BTW, readline 5.0 now compiles out of the tarball on Mac OS X.
Posted 17 Aug 2004 at 11:45pm #
I'll throw this into fink for you, sure... However, it would be good if you versioned the zip file. That way the URL won't break if you update the app.
A fink info file is as easy as:
Package: decide
Version: 1.0
Revision: 1
Source: http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/downloads/%n.zip
Source-MD5: 76282066fb1021ba387d1bfb1e0561e6
SourceDirectory: decide
BuildDepends: readline
Depends: readline-shlibs
CompileScript: xcodebuild HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS=%p/include LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS=%p/lib
Installscript:
Posted 17 Aug 2004 at 11:54pm #
Also, if you give fink permission to distribute the binary and source, i can make the license 'Restrictive/Distributable' so we can host binaries.
Posted 18 Aug 2004 at 12:11am #
Is it just me or is Line 187 of main.m really screwed up in the Xcode (v1.5) editor?