Getting started

Installation

Installing or updating Division Result Bridge is rather easy, if a little primitive.

Fresh install

We head to the download page and grab the latest release, as this is the version the documentation pertains to. The download consists of a single ZIP archive.

We then extract the ZIP archive to a location of our choice. The exact location is irrelevant; even a USB flash drive will do, and we can always move it later. The extraction should yield a single folder, which contains Division Result Bridge and its dependencies. Within the folder, we find division-result-bridge.exe — opening it will start the program. And that's it! Installation is complete.

Update

There is no specific update workflow. Instead, we simply follow the process outlined above for a fresh installation, this time downloading the new latest version. We are free to keep the old version around, but since some of the dependencies may have changed, different installations should not be mixed — they should be kept in separate folders.

Program and competition settings are not stored in the installation folder. Instead, they are automatically saved to a standard location on the computer (e.g. the registry on Windows). This means different versions of the program will use the same settings.

Division Result Bridge uses semantic versioning to differentiate releases. A new major version implies breaking changes, and these will be described in the release notes along with a migration strategy.