[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Todo-list in www.freeciv.org totally out of date!

["Thomas Raschbacher" <lordvan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Ben Webb">
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:37:24PM +0300, Joona Kiiski wrote:
>> Just wanted to point out that Todo-list (www.freeciv.org/todo.html) is
>> totally out of date!
>
> I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
>
>> * Disasters
>>     Floods, droughts, famine, earthquake, meteorites, tornado,
>>     volcano, hurricane & terrorist activity.
>
>       Volcanoes, floods and droughts (at least, the land<->sea terrain
> transformations) are needed for SMAC compatibility, i.e.
> http://freecivac.sourceforge.net/.
>
>> * Client-side API:
>>     Designing an API to separate the client code into
>>     front-end UI code and back-end comms code. Having
>>     this is essential to the future of client-side AI's,
>>     and also to solving the client integrity problem.
>>
>> Isn't this exactly what agents are for!
>
>       Yes, but there's still some way to go before agents can replace
> the current AI.
>
>> * Run-time scripting:
>>    Scripting would be a very useful Freeciv extension.
>>
>> Agents, agents, agents. I think we are no longer interested in GUILE
>> or LISP or whatever...
>
>       Perhaps not LISP, but scripting remains a target, particularly
> for FreecivAC. There are plenty of things other than AI that a simple
> scripting language would be useful for; in particular, the rulesets for
> SMAC compatibility (I'm thinking particularly of its "compound" unit
> handling) are not presently very far removed from a scripting language.
What about python? it's easy to learn and also easy to embed ;)
ThomasR
>
>       Ben
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