Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Diplomat Treaty Gold Bug / New Races

[Massimo Campostrini <campo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/freeciv-dev-9810/msg00025.html
> 
> (which adds Japanese and Spanish, and apparently makes it easy
> to add other additional races).  Its a patch against Oct-23 cvs 
> freeciv, so not sure how/whether it will work against other 
> versions...

Not as it stands.  But as soon as we have a new stable release and a
new CVS branch I'll try to have it merged.

> > Would it be possible in future to centralize the code of tribes in one
> > (two?) file(s) so that new tribes: the cities and characteristics would be
> > easier to add. Another possibility is to make a subdir containing a file
> > for each tribe.
> 
> Something like that would indeed seem a good idea. 

My patch requires new C code for each race; but I think I can add an
interactive code generator to enable non-hackers to add new races.

        Massimo