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Is there any way to use a mashup offline?
By StrangeDice, history, 15 months ago, In English

I want to solve the problems of a mashup offline. Is there a way to get their package and be able to submit and get them accepted offline?

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Technically you cannot "submit and get accepted" into CF mashup offline, because it will require sending a submission into CF, which is impossible without online access (unless you can actually set up a private local CF server).

If you have the Polygon package of the mashup contest (or the Polygon package of particular problem), you can locally test whether given solution passes all tests. This can be done in a way similar to <problem-package-root>/script/gen-answer script.

However, you cannot download a mashup contest Polygon package directly from CF, you have to request it directly from problem authors.

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    What about round problems? Their package is private too?

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      Yes, they are private too.

      At least you cannot get complete test data, validator source, checker source, additional materials (generators, stress tests, extra source files) from CF side. You have to have Polygon access or problem package to get complete problem materials.

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