On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:05 -0800, islaymalt wrote:
> Hi folks,
Lo!
>
> There's been a lot of interest in the scrabble knoppix with quackle.
> It has been suggested that I add more tools to the disk and take in
> some of the latest updates. I agree with this and will work on adding
> zyzzyva and letterbox to the disk. Once I get a good build going, I'll
> work on how we can pass the disk around. I think maybe getting it to
> clubs and to a few tournaments will be a good start, and people can
> just copy it and pass it along if they find it fun or useful. I'll
> take suggestions for other tools that should be on the disk, as long
> as they are free/freely distributable.
>
> John has offered to take copies to Dallas, but I am unsure if I can
> finish it in time. I'll keep you all posted, and I'll mail a few
> copies to people who have asked as well. I'll keep you all posted here
> on the list.
I really like the live-cd solution regardless of whether there are
regular windows packages available, but...
Quackle didn't use wstring and friends until about two months ago when I
got rid of the english-centricness of libquackle and enabled support for
any language that can be represented with unicode. It would be
straightforward to provide a way to disable wstring, because any
English-language games wouldn't be affected. I can do this with much
less effort than y'all making super-cool live cd's :-) So I will try to
when I feel like it; I'll feel like it soon. Then Quackle will run
natively on Windows if no other snags come up.
(Or, has anybody tried compiling with a non mingw compiler? that would
work too -- I know for a fact that ms vc++ can compile libquackle as a
friend was able too -- I don't know if the Qt open-source edition on
Windows has limitations on compilers)
>
> Jason,
>
> What's the best way to start quackle from a script? I know if I start
> it from the quackle directory, it can find all the lex, but if I start
> it from a script, it can have some trouble. I COULD hard code the
> directory in the source, but I think that is the wrong thing to do
> even though it is on a read only medium.
In the long term, data file loading will be more flexible and not
limited by the lame way it's done now.
thanks a bunch again,
Jason
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