Hey, Jason.
I was hoping to look into this again tonight (I did look at it for a little
bit over the weekend, too, but made no appreciable progress).
Since you just added wstring a couple of months ago, I should just try
checking those sources out of cvs and running it through mingw. I presume
the sources were basically functional before the wstring commits (if not,
let me know). I'll do this tonight and send a status report. I think that
would be better than for you to put any effort into removing wstring...that
way, we at least know whether the wstring thing is the big obstacle, or
whether others also lie in our path.
If there are continuing problems, I think a serious look at the cygwin
system is in order.
Sincerely,
John Fultz
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User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:31:15 -0500, Jason E Katz-Brown wrote:
> 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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