What it is
==========

Bundesliga is an application designed to manage sports leagues like
soccer (football) and similar such as handball, ice hockey or
basketball. You'll need to install one of the supplied database files to 
start.

With Bundesliga you can browse and edit the fixture, enter results and
compute the table according to the results.

By now the program exists in 12 different languages (German, English, US
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Thai, Netherlands, Czech, Russian,
Japanese, Italian), and you are welcome to translate it into another
language. Read the instructions at the top of the file "src/bl.rcp".

Other Leagues
=============
I've put together database files for many european soccer leagues (the ones
I found relatively quickly or got emailed :-). Bundesliga and all its
database files can be installed just like any other application.

I'll try to keep up with the results and offer database files for most
of the leagues on my website http://www.pundt.de/pilot/dbfiles/
(no promise though that they will be up to date every weekend :-)

There are some ways to create your own database file:

First one: use the Perl script from the "leagues/" directory; the tool
"genpdb.pl" has some comments at its top (use "perldoc genpdb.pl" to view),
that explain how to create a text file with a fixture that can be converted
into a PDB file suitable for Bundesliga. See the provided sample files in
the same directory. 

The leagues directory is only present in the source code distribution,
though. It can be downloaded at http://www.pundt.de/pilot/bundesliga/.

Second choice: modify the teams and fixture using the builtin editor. You'll
find the editor under "Edit|Fixture". (By now you'll need to have a DB file
installed before you can use the editor.)

Third choice: use the web interface on my website
http://www.pundt.de/pilot/dbfiles/genpdb.html. It is driven by a modified
version of the perl script mentioned above.

Files
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bl.cz.prc			the Czech version,
bl.de.prc			the German version,
bl.en.prc			is the English version of the program,
bl.es.prc			the Spanish version,
bl.fr.prc			the French version,
bl.it.prc			the Italian version.
bl.jp.prc			the Japanese version,
bl.nl.prc			the Netherlands version,
bl.pt.prc			the Portuguese version,
bl.ru.prc			the Russian version,
bl.th.prc			the Thai version,
bl.us.prc			the US English version,

pdbfiles/			contains database files for various European
				Soccer Leagues.

leagues/			contains the fixtures in text form along
				with Perl scripts to create the PDB files
                                and convert them to text files (only in
				source code distribution).

What's new
==========
Please check out the file NEWS.txt


What is planned
===============
o Start with an empty screen, if no database is installed.
o Development of a team within a season.

Enhancements and translations are welcome :-)

Have fun,
Thomas

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Thomas Pundt <thomas@pundt.de>   |   http://www.pundt.de/pilot/
