Scarry On Lin{e|ux}¶
Introduction¶
This application has the goal of making it easier the organization of a championship of Carrom.
Its short codename, SoL, may stand either as Scarry On (GNU)/Linux or as Scarry On
Line, until a better description comes out. Both are a bit imprecise, because
SoLshould run perfectly well on many other operating systems, being written in Python and (currently) JavaScriptdespite it being a client/server application, potentially exposed on Internet or on the local LAN, it does not require the network, everything can run on a single disconnected machine.
In turn Scarry, the ancestor of SoL, was named after the word I'm used to call Carrom
with, Scarambol.
Brief history¶
Scarry was a Delphi application I wrote years ago, with the equivalent goal. It started as
a "quick and dirty" solution to the problem, and Delphi was quite good at that. It served us
for years, with good reliability, but since I find programming in that claudicant environment
really boring, there was no way I could be convinced to enhance it further.
This is a complete reimplementation, restarting from scratch: it's built exclusively with free software components, so that I won't be embaraced to public the whole source code.