Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Serious Suggestions

[Stephen Hodge <stephenh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Schaefer Frank R wrote:
> 1.) City-Building-Plans
...
>     These things  could facilitate a  lot of the  work that has  to be
>     done by  a player => More fun.   Plans can be stored  in files and
>     recalled on demand.  I'm  quite used to write little interpreters.
>     Actually  there's  a  run-time  interpreted  programming  language
>     called 'Schwammerl'  that I designed  as a satellite  language for
>     the orbit around C++ programs. We could use that.

This is a good idea (I believe something similar will be in Civ3:CTP). I
think we need to have some discusion on how to do this, for example
should we just have a simple list or a true scripting language type
system such as suggested above? Personally I am in favour of a scripting
language, especially since it could be extended to provide unit
automation too (eg if enemy unit wakes a sentried unit and at war with
that nation then attack). In that case which language? I think we should
consider Scheme since it's the standard GNU scripting language now.

Regards,
Steve Hodge