Re: [crossfire] CVS branches

2005-08-10 Thread Nicolas Weeger
What will be the next server version? 1.7.1 or 1.8.0? If no one object, i'll put a tag for the release candidate tomorrow or friday, so people can again break cvs with commits :) Nicolas ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman

[crossfire] Alchemy classroom map

2005-08-10 Thread Anton Oussik
Hi, I submitted a patch to the tracker (1255825) adding a basement map to the potionshop in scorn. It is an alchemy classroom map, and costs 2000 platinum to enter. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailma

Re: [crossfire] CVS branches

2005-08-10 Thread tchize
Joining thread a bit late, trolling a bit perhaps :) I personnaly would enjoy a branch policy on crossfire cvs (whatever it is, a bad decision is always better than no decision). I don't think we need branching at each release (unless we want to keep a few weeks after release a bugfixing branch w

Re: [crossfire] CVS branches

2005-08-10 Thread Brendan Lally
On Monday 08 Aug 2005 07:49, Mark Wedel wrote: > If other people want to help with releases, that would be great. Having > a more frequent (quarterly) release schedule would also be good. > > Even people taking some portiosn of the release (maps, archs) reduces the > effort a bit on my side -

[crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Amorya North
I'm interested in porting Crossfire to MacOS. I know that the existing client can be made to run on MacOS - I am using it myself. However, it requires Apple's development tools to be installed, an X server running and a lot more technical knowledge than most users possess. If we had a nativ

Re: [crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Alex Schultz
Amorya North wrote: I'm interested in porting Crossfire to MacOS. I know that the existing client can be made to run on MacOS - I am using it myself. However, it requires Apple's development tools to be installed, an X server running and a lot more technical knowledge than most users possess

Re: [crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Brendan Lally
On Thursday 11 Aug 2005 00:25, Amorya North wrote: > I'm interested in porting Crossfire to MacOS. > If I go ahead with this, I'll write the client in Objective-C using > the Cocoa API. Hopefully I'll be able to reuse some of the backend > code (such as packet parsing) by wrapping it in an objecti

Re: [crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Amorya North
On 11 Aug 2005, at 01:24, Brendan Lally wrote: In theory all C code compiles to objective C as well. (I say in theory, I have never tried it in practise). If this is so, it should be sufficiant to take the common/ directory, and compile the C files there as if they were objective C and the

Re: [crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Amorya North
On 11 Aug 2005, at 01:00, Alex Schultz wrote: Another option is that someone could build the existing GTK client with gtk-cocoa (http://gtk-cocoa.sourceforge.net/), which would allow it to run without the X server running and such. It's worth looking into. I don't know specifics about gtk

Re: [crossfire] Am interested in porting to Mac

2005-08-10 Thread Alex Schultz
Amorya North wrote: You may want to build it within the existing framework and link directly to the C code in the common directory, because that way this native MacOS client could eventually become an official part of the source tree, and one advantage of that is that many protocol changes wo