Re: civil war, was Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Diplomacy....

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 13, Per Mathisen decided to present us with:
> 
> I am wondering what needs to be worked on right now. According to the
> roadmap the next release should feature new tiles, rulesets, the space
> race, civil war and improved races. Trent and David seem to be
> progressing fast on the tilesets, but since we aim to keep backwards
> compatibility, the rest of the stuff seems to be out for now... or 
> have I gotten it all wrong?

Shouldn't we exchange some points between 1.7.3 and 1.8.0? I
think GTK is ready for release (it has bugs, but it's also easy
to shut off in configure, could come off as default) while
space race probably won't be - and space race depends on
rulesets doesn't it? All things that use rulesets should
probably be held off till one version _after_ rulesets so we
have time to test them.

> Anyway, I am working on sound support using esound+audiofile. No idea
> when it is ready, but it should not take too long.

I wouldn't really like to make FreeCiv depend on esound. As all
things E-related it makes me install a lot of other stuff. Also,
the API isn't optimal - i've been looking into it and GSI and
GSI seems to be years ahead.

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