[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freeciv 1.12.1 spec?

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:48:23PM -0500, Jason Short wrote:
> > General-topologies (which will allow all sorts of wrapping, plus 
> > iso-rectangular and potentially many other cool topology shapes) is not 
> > all that far off now; most cleanups have been done and what remains is 
> > mostly the implementation of the actual topology system.  It would 
> > therefore be a shame IMO to not complete it at this point.  Things 
> > remaining to do include:
> > - Put through the currently pending (small) patch to clean up 
> > isometric-tile math.
> > - Provide another (larger) cleanup patch to make more of the overview 
> > code GUI-independent (Gaute needs to do this too, I think, so there may 
> > be some help there).
> > - Provide one final small cleanup patch (or it could be several 
> > micro-patches) that fixes a collection of small problems through the code.
> > - Implement and use the function find_representative_map_pos (or 
> > unnormalize_map_pos).  Ross and I still have to bash heads on the 
> > implementation (see the earlier discussion on "candy-cane wrapping"), 
> > but we're agreed on the basic idea.
> > - Add the infrastructure for the topology system.  This includes the 
> > topology structure itself, information in the savegame about it, and new 
> > packets containing the data.  If there was ever a time to break 
> > backwards-compatibility for the protocol (which I believe Raimar has 
> > been waiting for), this is it.
> > - Implement different topologies by changing the backend topology code.
> You forgot mapgen. At least I don't see this as a micro problem.

Yes.  There are some other things I've forgotten too - I think the 
biggest one may be cleanup of non-GTK gui's (there are a lot of 
map_adjust_* macros in there, and I just noticed the map_canvas_adjust_* 
functions for the first time today...).
Now that I think about it Gaute's going to have problems with this stuff 
too.  So I'll work on this (different client gui's) next.
jason