[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset Development Was: Development Strategies

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Josh Cogliati wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> If freeciv actually implemented everything that was in the rulesets I
> guarantee that there would be more rulesets. (Oh, and I have looked at 
> the impr-gen patch that the AC people have.  That doesn't cut it since
> it does not get rid of OLD_IMPR_TYPE_ENUM)  Freeciv does not need to be 
> reimplemented, it needs to actually implement everything it claims to.
> Reimplementing freeciv's 130k of code is a major project.  Adding the 
> 1-5k of code that is needed to implement the rulesets should be much more
> doable.

I wasn't aware of this situation because i never even scratched the
surface of the rulesets code. I guess we should go on and make the
rulesets we do have work before adding more extensions.
I also think that things like number of unit types, etc, shouldn't be
capped with a small hardwired number.
I see no reason why the server can't at bootup read the rulesets and
dynamically set a MAX_UNITS variable or something.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa