I'm making preparatory work for some quite big tasks. Fact is, that as I now have kids and sometimes quite demanding job, I cannot spend so much time hacking Freeciv as ten years ago. So you are very welcome to take over these actual projects. I'd rather just limit my participation to these setup steps and to supporting main developer. By these setup steps I just make it possible for others to actually develop the main project. If someone has been looking for coding project, but doesn't really know what to start on, you may consider these.
1) Almost as long as I have been involved with Freeciv (since 1997), it's been said that current AI should be rewritten from scratch. Quite frequently people pop up to discuss it, but always they find out that current AI is rooted too deep in the server code to be easily replaced. I have been working to separate AI from rest of the server, so others could write new AI. Currently I'm implementing interfaces for AI(s) to be separately loadable modules. This would mean that new AI could be completely separate project not even compiled as part of Freeciv. So, soon (Freeciv-2.4) it should be much easier to write completely new AI from scratch than before. 2) As Freeciv is written in C, and Qt is C++ library, and because of how client code is arranged, it has not been possible to write Qt client for Freeciv. Now I have worked on this, up to point where I have stub client with Qt window opening. Mixing Freeciv code and Qt still requires some work., but Qt-client main developer vacancy is soon open. - ML _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
