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SYSTEM REQUIREMENT CHECKER PYTHON PACKAGE

brief: tells if computer has recommended specs (set by author of the program) to run the program.

1. Read from a json file called 'MINREQ.json'
 structure of JSON:
        {
             recommended__req{
                CPU : "";
                RAM : "";
                //add later
                GPU : "" ;
                DISK_space : "";
            }

            //add later
            min_req{

            }
            overridable :True/Flase

        }

2. Display if it matches recommended sys reqs

OPTIONS : 
Display/write current system : Shows the current system secs and/or writes them into json file
ovverrideable : lets user override min reqs

//add later
automatic recomendation system that gives min_req on its own by using time required to run full program ,
taking the current cpu score from geeknbench and calculating delta'


HOW IT WORKS:

accesses a sqlite ? database with info about x86/ AMD 64 processors (start with only 35) ranked in order of benchmark scores
read data from json and convert it to query  check if current processor is above or below in the db



WORKING METHOD

Step 1 : user installs specchecc : pip install specchecc

Step 2: user runs specchecc init in CWD (-r defaults )

Step 3: Spec returns these questions (leaving blank defaults)

        1.recommended cpu : current / CPU brand name (checks if exists in db and returns error if not)

        2.recommended RAM :current i.e 13.88GB / 8.00GB

        3.recommended GPU: current

        4. add message: custom message / leave blank defaults


step 4 : creates the json file recc.JSON

Step 5 : User adds import specchecc    specchecc.printcheck() in  beginning of program (prints in console) specchecc.check() returns string

Step 6: when program is run specchecc checks system and gives warning




milestone 1: get cpu information  complete

milestone 2: write data into json file semi complete -- format better?

milestone 3: write simple sqlite db complete 

milestone 3.1: check if a model is present in db complete


milestone 4 : use datafrom json in sqlite query complete

milestone 5: complete the db for 30 processors complete has 2000 entries

milestone 6 : add RAM checker complete

milestone make json writer function that writes stuff.

MILESTONE MAKE  module

milestone 7: write tests

milestone 8: change from CPU_Stepping to CPU_BrandName

milestone 9: new DB with geekbench scores

milestone 10 : make it platform independent


USAGE:
        Once the whl packaage is installed using the pip install command, utility can be directly executed from terminal/CMD, with the command
                checspecc init

        also same utility can be used in a script by importing the packaage as 
                form ChecSpecc.main import checkspec
                *checkspec is a function, which expects list of commands, e.g checkspec(['init'])