[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7123) [FS#8] First public version

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:11:59PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >
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> Jason Short wrote:
> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >
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> > Jason Short wrote:
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> >><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >
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> >>And another problem:
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> >>client/Makefile.am has gui-fs included twice in the subdirs.  This 
> >>causes compilation to fail.
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> > 
> > Err, this isn't exactly the problem.  But there is a big problem in the 
> > bootstrap.  I've had to edit it a lot to get it to work (assuming it 
> > does work).
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> After lots of editing of the bootstrap code, I got it to compile.  Then 
> it took some more work to find verdana 

> (WHY use a proprietary font set???)

Because it is a good one. The free fonts I have found so far show bugs
in small sizes. 

http://www.freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/vera_vs_verdana-small.png
shows this for Vera. Feel free to point out other free fonts.

At some point we will ship FS with a free font. But I will strongly
encourage people to get and use Verdana because it looks better.

> Finally I ran it.  It did nothing for a while

Really nothing. Do you have started the server with an savegame and
commanded "start"?

> and then crashed when I clicked in the wrong place.

Then don't do this ;)

        Raimar

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