Re: [Freeciv-Dev] FreeCiv Shareware competitor

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.  With that message, I 
was not writing against multiple UI's (my opinion on those is that
time could be better spent elsewhere, but it's not a big deal).  I was 
instead writing against "linking" in Perl or Python code into the
program.


Esben Haabendal Soerensen <ehs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 6 Nov 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > Esben Haabendal Soerensen <ehs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > It would also open up for writing an interface to popular scripting
> > > language.
> > > What about a Perl or Python interface for writing you own helpers ?
> > 
> > 1. Portability.
> > 2. Complexity.
> > 3. Size.
> > 4. Speed.
> > 
> > I think that about sums it up :-)
> > 
> > (Granted, #1 is somewhat weaker than the others)
> 
> I don't get it...
> 
> 1) Seperating the GUI (widgets and stuff) from the rest
>    of the client code would make it very easy (or at least
>    easier) to write a new UI.  Could be a scripting ui or
>    the next fancy gui toolkit coming up (or some ugly M$
>    toolkit).
> 
> 2) Seperating the code this way might not decrease the overall
>    complexity.  More complexity will be put in the framework
>    code, but the two remaining parts (the gui and the game-stuff)
>    should each be less complex than the current all-in-one
>    client.
> 
> 3) Practically the same as #2. But I don't think that the added
>    size will be very large.
> 
> 4) Hmmm.  as #3.
> 
> 
> As I see it #1 and #2 would be great properties for freeciv.
> #3 and #4 should not bring around any big annoyances.
> The win is definitly #1.  Having multiple UI's are generally
> what makes any client good.
> 
> AFAIK what we are discussing here is the way ALL Open Source
> projects should go.  We have so many great applications. If
> they all were designed like this, then it would be much easier
> doing what the KDE folks are doing with lots of apps.
> 
> -- 
> /Esben  (bart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> 
> : But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.
> 
> (yet)   :-)
>              -- Larry Wall in <199702221943.LAA20388@xxxxxxxx>
> 

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