[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Raimar and Dirk's note patch

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:25:48AM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > Dirk Stoecker and I addressed this issue. There most current patch is
> > at
> > <ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/development/raimar/note-9_based_on_attr5.diff.gz>
> > (I'm surprised: my own directory). The idea is implemented and bug
> > free (TM). However all error and success paths at the server have
> > still to be updated.
> 
> What happened to this patch?

No feedback -> no more work. I was more interested at the
attributes. And Dirk isn't around anymore.

> Do anyone remember if there were any outstanding issues with it, or
> remaining work, and if so, what they were?

Yes IMO the category system will not work in this way. And you also
have to convert all message calls. Note that a similar patch was
recently posted here which addressed the issue the note patch was
originally trying to solve: i18n of messages. The messages will go
untranslated to the client and so the translation depends on the
client settings.

> A patch like this is vital to get proper sound support, so I'd very much
> like to see it go in.

That resurrect it.

        Raimar

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