[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Python?

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:30:03PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Has anyone ever been interested in making the Freeciv code OO, i.e.
> migrating away from C by gradual, hodgepodge methods?

ObjectCiv, http://sourceforge.net/projects/objectciv. It's one of the many
SourceForge 'never released any files' projects.

> Has anyone proposed using Python for that task?  Has anyone done any
> work on it?
> 
> Slightly different question: has anyone suggested embedding Python
> support in Freeciv?  Has anyone actually done work on it?

There is a patch somewhere which embeds Python in the server and client.
It's a few years old though... and you'll have to wait until the search
engine is fixed, unless someone has a direct link. There is also
FreecivAC at http://freecivac.sourceforge.net/, which embeds S-Lang into
the server in a limited fashion (part of the newcompounds patch). Both
will require you to fiddle with C though to apply to current CVS.

        Ben
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