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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:02:14PM -0700, Josh Cogliati wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > So you say that the reason that freeciv doesn't have more rulesets is
> > the way flags are handled? I disagree. But we booth don't know and
> > will never know.
> > 
> >     Raimar
> 
> About a 6 months ago I wanted to add a few buildings to freeciv (or
> make a new ruleset with a few new buildings.)  So I read the header of
> buildings.ruleset and started making a few changes.  Then I added a
> building.  Then I tried to run freeciv.  Boom.  Freeciv wouldn't run
> with one extra building in the ruleset.  So I decided that since I was
> a programmer I just needed to find the variable or constant that
> controlled the number of buildings and increase it.  Then I saw the
> code.  Practically every interesting thing that is done with buildings
> is hard coded.  Try undefining OLD_IMPR_TYPE_ENUM and see how much of
> freeciv doesn't compile.
> 
> 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 agree completely. Note that this doesn't have anything to do with
unit flags.


        Raimar
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