Rick Tanner wrote:
> About two weeks ago (or maybe longer..) on IRC one of the developers
> who worked on and updated the map editor for Daimonin asked about a
> collaboration on a Java based editor that had a central or common core
> with specific side packages(?) for Crossfire and one for Daimonin.
> For those who can *and* are willing to contribute Java development
> interested in persuing this? Or discussing it further?
I'm interested since I did plan to fix/improve the editor for quite a
while now (but never found time to really start work). And since both
projects do not have that many developers, IMHO it would be a good idea
to share resources.
OTOH I still see some obstacles to consider when merging the editors:
- Both editors are quite different (code-wise but maybe not
feature-wise); it seems that both editors have been changed quite a
bit since fork time.
Since the Daimonin editor has no ChangeLog file, and the CF-Editor's
ChangeLog file was not updated for all changes, it is probably not
too easy to make sure all existing features are kept in a merge.
- Into which repository should the merged code go? I don't think we
should keep two copies (one in Crossfire, one in Daimonin) since it
would be hard to maintain.
Moving the CF-Editor into another project should not be hard to do
since it is a standalone repository as far as I can tell. But the
Daimonin editor is part of a combined server/client/editor/etc.
repository. Therefore it probably has more dependencies to other
parts of the project.
- The Daimonin editor requires Java 1.5. The CF-Editor still works with
Java 1.4. Since switching back to 1.4 does not really make sense to
me, 1.5 would become a requirement for Crossfire.
- I *think* some config files are not completely compatible anymore:
- Spells are objects in Crossfire but (I think) still hardcoded as
numbers in Daimonin.
- Treasurelists in Daimonin use some "&" syntax (I think). Not sure
if the treasurelist format has changed, or if it is only the
syntax of the string referencing the treasures.
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