[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Wanting to help

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jérôme Plût wrote:
> Hi Freeciv developers,
>
> I started hacking at the FreeCiv code (I only had 2.0.1, but will port
> whatever could be of interest to you to 2.0.7) in order to prepare it
> to be able to simulate (or rather, update) an old game which a lot of
> Freecivers probably appreciate much, that is, Master of Magic. Now I
> know that Master of Magic must obviously be a rather recurrent project
> (as is shown in the wiki) but, firstly I don't want a clone but an
> update, a project that would be able to take advantage of FreeCiv's
> magnificent features :-), and I don't want to fork a MoM-like outright
> but rather contribute as much code as possible to mainstream FreeCiv,
> since there are some improvements that could probably be rather useful
> to FreeCiv itself (if you want to emulate Civ3/CTP, don't know about
> Civ4), and _then_ think about a fork.
Individual features will have to be handled on a case-by-case basis, but 
in general we are interested in supporting more MoM-like behavior and 
eventually in having a MoM ruleset.
However, you need to work off of the development version, not 2.0.x. 
Substantial changes to the core code have been made, many of which will 
make it easier to support MoM features.  Get the current code from svn.
-jason