Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Gtk+ FreeCiv Server

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pranevich wrote:

(Um, line breaks, please?)

> I have written a gtk front-end to the FreeCiv *server*. 

> The patch still needs a lot of work, I have put in some infrastructure to 
> allow both text and gtk servers to be built from the same tree, but I'm not 
> done with that bit. SO I'm not going to include a patch just yet.)

It sounds very good.

I'm not sure if it would have been harder, or impractical, but 
what I would have prefered would be a gtk front-end which _runs_ 
the text-only server, giving it commands and interpreting its 
output.  Plus any changes to the text-only server to make this 
feasible, if required.

That would seem a clean separation of functionality (gui/non-gui), 
and one would trivially still have the text-only server if/when 
one wants it.

> 3. A local civclient may be started from the same application.

This is an especially nice feature, to help users who are confused 
by the client-server nature of things.

Regards,
-- David