[freeciv-ai] Re: puppeteer patches builded over versions that do not compile

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Mike Kaufman wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:42:13AM -0700, nikodimka wrote:
>
> > Essentially there is nothing inherent in puppeteer which would
> > tie it to gtk. Except for the following things.
> >
> > 1)
> > The puppeteer uses some socket code. Such code is different among clients.
> >
> > If I would just use unix soket API I wouldnt be sure the it would compile
> > on windows, shmindows et al. But this required me to become platform 
> > dependant in
> > just higher level. Because sdl, gtk etc use different socket related 
> > mechanizms.
>
> this client should not depend on any gui libraries. Use the unix socket
> API. It can be #ifdefed with the windows socket code later.

netintf.h has a UNIX/Win32 compatible network layer.

> > 2)
> > I wanted to put unit ID to canvas under each unit as it is done
> > for names under each city.
> >
> > Right when I'll get some free night this gtk-related part
> > will be polished a bit and submitted as a separate patch to gtk-client.
>
> yeah this is definitely a separate patch.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa