well, if I understand correctly, your tool can update the terrain WML... can it be generalized to any WML ? (specifically I am thinking of unit WML)
can the upgrade logic be separated from the upgrade engine (to have the main upconvert tool, plus a dozen separate file describing how to upgrade from verion X to version X+1, ideally allowing us not to touch upconvert when new version are released, but only a separate description file) more intersting to do (but harder) would be a tool to analyze stats.wesnoth.org and raise an alert if a parameter for a given campaign has drastically changed (sudently everybody stops at lvl4, the number of lvl2 units at end of lvl2 has multiplied by 3 between two releases, stuff like that) right now stats.wesnoth.org is a great tool, but the SVG is too complicated and long to load, making it mostly unusable... On 4/26/07, Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may already be clear to everyone, but just in case it isn't... > > The reason I've been concentrating so hard on macroscope and upconvert > isn't just because I like building tools (though it's true that I do). > As a player, I want us to carry a lot more more stuff in mainline. As > a developer, I know this is not realistic if it means we'd have to sink > hugely many more hours into campaign-maintenance work. > > So what I'm actually after, strategically speaking, is to drastically > decrease the overhead of maintainer-hours required per campaign. The > purpose of macroscope, broadly speaking, is to automate as much sanity > checking as possible. The purpose of upconvert, broadly speaking, is > to automate the fiddly bits of forward-porting campaigns as WML and > the resource files in mainline change. > > I'm rehearsing what may be obvious because, if any of you have ideas > for more tools that would decrease maintainers' burdens, I'd like > to hear those ideas. > > What else would make the job easier? What other time-intensive tasks might > be mechanized? Please speculate and brainstorm. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > > Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, > citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, > as individuals, and their rights as freemen. > -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" > referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > Wesnoth-dev@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
