[Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want to work on the ~ (was: registry)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:01:13PM CET, I got a letter, where
Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> Now the ruleset format is undocumented and inadequate - it doesn't really
> support nested structures.  So perhaps it's better to use libxml2?  libxml2
> depends on libm (which Freeciv doesn't depend on I think) and libz, which
> Freeciv depends on for compression, but nothing else.
I think we don't need XML at all. It at least looks much less readable and
comfortablee for me. I would be completely happy with C-like ruleset syntax -
i.e.:

building {
  id = "Airport";
  name = _("Airport");
  tech_req = "Radio";
  effect {
    type = "Unit_Veteran";
    range = "City";
    aff_unit = "Air";
  }
  effect {
    type = "Airlift";
    range = "City";
  }
  helptext = _("Blablabla\
blabla\n\nbla\
blah!");
}

It would be IMHO much cleaner than current one, and actually not so much
different. As a parser, I don't see anything particulary wrong on flex+bison.
Easy to use, portable, effecient.

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