On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:15:25AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Nils Kneuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Mordante plans to refactor the gui system to make it easier themeable and to > > reduce the maintance load. Currently the GUI section seems to be a mess > > which > > makes adding new features like tabbed view and changes to dialogs very > > difficult. > > I'll help Mordante with this if I can. I probably know the GUI code > better than anyone else except Sapient, because I refactored a lot of > the upper level of the GUI code once before while implementing the > lightweight message popups. However, my understanding of the lower > levels entwined with SDL is minimal -- not zero, but minimal.
I've some ideas for a new system and want to experiment a bit with that. Nothing really to discuss atm, but I'll start to commit code after the forking of 1.4. This code lives in a separate subdirectory so it won't touch the main code. (Which saves me from branching.) > > - - odd-on server revamp > > Mordante wants to takle some changes for the add-on server to > > introduce the long wanted things like "content type" and to allow > > running tools like wmllint on severside or on clientside right > > before uploading to reduce the amount of problems with add-ons. Many > > of those changes will require changes to the GUI system so that they > > can be displayed in a usable way. > > I will fully cooperate with this. If wmllint needs modifications to run in > that environment I will cheerfully deliver them. As discussed on IRC esr might want to look at it as well. > > - - formula AI integration Dave has been working on allowing some > > formulas for AIs to be coded in WML. This is some kind of functional > > programming inside WML to better control the behavior of the AI. For > > example it would be possible to hardcode mapspecific behavior of the > > AI in the first turns for some maps. Dave also demonstrated how the > > current branch already does work to the developers that were still > > around when FOSDEM was almost over. So far it seems to already work > > nicely and can probably be merged into trunk after 1.4 is > > tagged. This AI also requires some additional dependencies from > > boost. This is mentioned further below. > > I'll go further -- I think that if formula AI lives up to its billing > we ought to find a formula setting that approximates the default > AI and then just *delete* the default AI. I don't see any point in keeping > two large masses of AI code I've seen Sirp's presentation of the formula AI and it really looks impressive what kind of functionality it offers! > > - - savegame format revamp > > Currently the savegames seem to be a rather big mess. Mordante plans > > to have a look at it and reimplement some of the logics. The benefit > > of this would be that savegames should look more uniform. At the > > moment for example start of scenario saves in MP look different than > > Turn1 saves. This revamp will also be needed to cleanly fix some > > replay and mp-campaign savegame problems. > > I don't think I can help much with this, but I want to note that this is > probably the most important post-1.4 issue from a bug-fixing perspective. > I can't allocate Mordante's time, but -- if my request has any weight -- > I'd like him to work on this before tackling major new features. This is already quite high on my list ;-) There's another point we discussed. At the moment we carry SDL_ttf in our tree, we want to try to move to using the normal dependency again. If we agree I want to make this change early in the 1.5 stage so we can give it as much testing as possible. Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
