[Wesnoth-dev] Shipping 1.3.3

2007-05-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
urus a heads-up. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught

[Wesnoth-dev] filesystem.cpp port problems

2007-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
eview byy people other than us would be a good idea. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice an

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] [RFC] remove zipios

2007-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark de Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Recently there was a discussion on IRC and it seems zipios is no longer > used. If it's really not used is there still a need to keep it? I don't see a need. -- http://www.catb.org/~

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] filesystem.cpp port problems

2007-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I think we'sd have nailed it already. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Changing the WML include file syntax.

2007-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
't be found will likewise become a fatal error. 5. To handle the mapdata="{foo.map}" case, we introduce a new tag map= that includes map files by name reference, so the above can be rewritten as map="foo.map". -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Changing the WML include file syntax.

2007-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
made nechanically by wmllint. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Changing the WML include file syntax.

2007-05-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
hard-to-debug abuses -- for example, when an included file isn't a balanced syntactic unit. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Releasing 1.3.3

2007-05-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Nils Kneuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did any other blockers occur recently? None that I know of. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Extensive and useful feedback from a Wesnoth newbia

2007-06-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
27;s gripes. She is interesting both as an articulate representative of a large class of gamers and as an individual who could become an extremely -- even, at this time, *uniquely* -- valuable addition to our stable of campaign designers. Rather than immediately file 21 bugs, I've chosen t

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Extensive and useful feedback from a Wesnoth newbia

2007-06-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
rare exceptions. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Extensive and useful feedback from a Wesnoth newbia

2007-06-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
(once they get redone and probably disabled in MP mode). I'm in favor of that plan. I'd like to have the L3 Highwayman back in NR. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Extensive and useful feedback from a Wesnoth newbia

2007-06-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I think about 20 minutes, but I'm not sure. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Extensive and useful feedback from a Wesnoth newbia

2007-06-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
see into what these units can evolve. Well, heck. If all it involves is editing the help text extensively I am quite able and willing to do that. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Calling all artists

2007-06-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
images/dialogs/translucent-background_80.png Please link each of these in turn to images/dialogs/translucent-background.png and tell us which version you think looks best. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond The only purpose for which power can be rightfully

[Wesnoth-dev] Alpha of the translucent-background.png

2007-06-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I checked using SNG. Opacity is 0x8c/0x1f = 194/256, or 67%. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest charact

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Calling all artists

2007-06-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
of the blur if needed. Oh, *excellent*! In fact, adding a blur effect was on my personal wish list. And the screenshot looks great. Please do commit this code. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mai

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Calling all artists

2007-06-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
quot; will actually end the scenario and/or exit to lobby. Yes, this will probably break a lot of assumptions in the current code abnd expose bugs. Nils and I have agreed that we should ship 1.3.4 before I merge this and start the dev group testin

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Soul shooter -> Aptrgangr : please revert it

2007-07-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ut I'd like to hear the arguments for the change by whoever was pushing it. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Naming proposal -- the Three Sisters

2007-07-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ap, I'll need a source for the font that was used for the legends on it. Sirp, jetryl, what was that? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, t

[Wesnoth-dev] What's going on with the new end-of-scenario logic

2007-07-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
rn autosaves, while MPP players tend to like end-of-turn autosaves. I'm not sure what the right thing is here. My own impulse would still be to scrap autosaves and let the players sort it out. As I said, I may be able to address some of these before I leave. If not, I hope this explanatio

[Wesnoth-dev] Chaos and madness

2007-07-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
tb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond The two pillars of `political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth -- George MacDonald Fraser ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https

[Wesnoth-dev] Chaos and madness, PS

2007-07-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
It was crazy all over, BTW. At the same time my EOS-linger changes were mysteriously turning from gold to shit, alink and uso were both on IRC reporting weird new bugs not obviously related to any of mine. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond The two pi

[Wesnoth-dev] End-of-scenario linger is back

2007-08-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
oaded with information about fog/shroud and time of day. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some re

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] End-of-scenario linger is back

2007-08-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
n effective cue that the scenario is over. Good idea. Anyone else can feel free to implement this while I'm gone. The right context is the method function playsingle_controller::linger(). -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond __

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] The South Guard custom traits question

2007-08-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ntly in the process of making some changes to TSG. Would this > > change be as simple as removing the custom traits? > > I'll fix it tonight if it hasn't already been done. I am looking at trait > stuff now, so it isn't a big deal. I concur with this

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Arcane Critique

2007-09-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
n the presence of cold as the dark adept's > attack. Combat between these two is still too volatile, mostly from > the undead side. Neutral on this one. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond
s at least one thing that could be done to check it; wmllint can look for NTC violations in its tables for resource-file renaming at its startup time. I'll look into coding that. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond When only cops have guns, it's called a

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
o to remain part of wmllint's behavior. In fact, it is my intention to add code that checks for NTC violations and aborts with an error if it finds one. You can believe my priorities are wrong, but as long as I'm maintaining wmllint that will be the rule. -- http://www.catb.o

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ut to the chase. Please think of this as showing respect for your time, as well as mine. I meant it that way. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] New music devs?

2007-09-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
David Philippi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My idea would be to ask someone like West with a reasonable level of > expertise to commit new music into SVN as he sees fit. I have time and interest to work on this. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/"

[Wesnoth-dev] General call for help -- I'm stumped

2007-11-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
creating. If anybody out there actually understands the logic around unit deaths I could use some insight. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. -- Mohandas Gandhi

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] General call for help -- I'm stumped

2007-11-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
something (like, dialogue). Still, it's a good place to start. > Hope this helps > Darth Fool Hugely helpful -- Thanks a 10e6. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] General call for help -- I'm stumped

2007-11-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
events do a scavenging pass that would look for units with HP <= 0 and delete them. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Using compression for savegames and addons

2007-11-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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Re: [Wesnoth-dev] General call for help -- I'm stumped

2007-11-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
a simpler way. You might consider firing an FR, though. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Can anyone shed any light on why this doesn't work?

2007-11-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ect=820,4,920,20 -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state". -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution" ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Can anyone shed any light on why this doesn't work?

2007-11-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Can anyone shed any light on why this doesn't work?

2007-11-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
atb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] New bug in save/load

2007-12-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I'm seeing a new bug in save/load, possibly brought about by YogiHH's recent bugfixes. When I win ThoT::Fear, in my current test game, Aiglondur is L3. If I hit "End Scenario" to go to "Forbidden Forest" he is an L3 as he should be. Hoever, if I then reload the scenbario start for "Forbidden For

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Fullheal AMLA for all

2007-12-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
gt; scenario at some point. It might make max-level units slightly more > versatile in long campaigns, but not too much. > > So, any arguments against such a change? I'd be OK with it. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Feature freeze for 1.4

2007-12-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
how fundamentally unworthy of mainline, now is the time to air them. I promise to listen attentively. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Feature freeze for 1.4

2007-12-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
uot;? cycholka is back and has taken responsibility for it. I know of 5 UtBS-related bugs. So far he has fixed one, the most recent. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.or

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Fullheal AMLA for all

2007-12-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
the idea. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Fullheal AMLA for all

2007-12-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ng the use a choice but meaning fullheal might come too late to save the unit, or (b) We wire in a rule. The thing is we need to make this choice *before* there is any point in arguing about the rule. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/"

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] may I help?

2007-12-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
you know OpenGL as well? There's been some talk of moving the graphics layer to an OpenGL base -- it would improve the game's performance a lot. We'd need someone who knows the SDL intimately to do that. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond __

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] may I help?

2007-12-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Feature freeze for 1.4

2008-01-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
derlevels is too difficult as it is now -- but otherwise have no fixed plans other than bug-stomping. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
7;d like to say we should go with WAF -- the lightness of the design appeals to me, and we've had it recommended. However, having read both sets of documentation, I think it would be more prudent to go with scons. Comments welcome, especially from anyone with experience of these tools. --

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Odp: Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
setups. You should be far more frightened of cmake, then. Its C code is a *great* deal more complex and heavyweight than both scons and WAF put together; I can tell that just by looking at the feature lists. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
without solving the problem. Our goal is to shoot autotools through the head. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
oured output, what should cmake do better than autoconf? I can't say I'm hugely surprised. I thought I detected a smell of clumsy, brittle design rising from the cmake documentation. This just confirms my suspicions that I didn't want anything to do with it.

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
long-term maintenance burden, and you should have figured out by now that I am much more obsessive about that than I am about which language dominates. (One of my longer-term to-do items is translating the few Perl and Ruby scripts we have around into Python.) --

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
y) 2005. What's different today is that autotools has gotten to be a worse and worse tarpit over time. Thus, its challengers have a better competitive position today then they did back when they were less mature and autotools was less encrusted. --

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
system. I'll do that. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ator, and I'm puzzled that there's not a built-in command-existence test. Nevertheless, it's pretty well designed. The scons build spec is going to be a drastically simpler and more flexible thing than the autotools machinery ever was, and far easier to maintain.

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ling with autools ever since its earliest ancestor, the config scripts in GNU Emacs c. 1987. It was horrible, but in a certain sense necessary, then. Today it's even more horrible -- and completely unnecessary. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond _

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
l enough truth in these stereotypes to make this a good joke...) -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Savefiles and game threads

2008-02-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
when accessed through Wesnoth) and if two > identical save files have the same id, we aren't going to care if > they were created independently. We don't care *now*. But if invoking a GUID library is cheap, let's just do that; I have a strong feeling global uniqueness will

[Wesnoth-dev] Savefiles and game threads

2008-02-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
"Load Snapshot" window that works like the current "Load Game", except that (a) it only shows saves from the currently selected game, and (b) it has a button named "Game List" that pops you to the Game List dialogue. I can imagine some ways to get fancier, but

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Savefiles and game threads

2008-02-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
d need to > somehow show that, when you got to scenario 4 of the campaign, you > tried the scenario two different ways... Yup. I've already got a UI presentation in mind for this. Ever seen what gitk looks like when it displays a repo with branches? --

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Tout campaign cleanups for 1.4 release

2008-02-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
nd expecting them if the formal is TERRAIN; this would catch (say) cases where you try to mistakenly pass an image in the wrong place. Of course since this is done in wmlscope it has no game overhead at all. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-02-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
you up on it if we decide to try writing a cmake-based build recipe. > P.S. yes, I am German :-) -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Savefiles and game threads

2008-02-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
John McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not store the history of save file IDs as a comma seperated list? > Deleted files wouldn't kill you, and you could still reconstruct the > whole tree. That's a good idea. -- http://www.catb.or

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Savefiles and game threads

2008-02-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Karol 'grzywacz' Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > So, as a beginning, I'm proposing that savefiles should grow two new > > fields: (1) A unique ID, and (2), a parent field containing the > > ID of the immediately prece

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-02-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
y have many of the same fundamental weaknesses as autotools, Imake, and other makefile-generator systems. I am intimately familiar with these and want to get away from that approach. As far away as possible. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Schedule for 1.4

2008-02-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ersa). I will continuew to improve that percentage. I will of course continue to fix glitches like bug #11044 (NR: Dwarf lord Hamal has no crown under orb) in the campaigns I'm co-responsible for. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-02-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ue using them. As long as scons or WAF can run on Windows, I think the single-tool approach is better. For one thing, it avoids the temptation to quick-fix problems by hacking the project files, allowing them to get out of sync with the 'real' ma

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Wesnoth music contributions

2008-02-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
nd idiom. That is mainly what is needed here, I think. (I'm a musician. It helps.) -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Thanks!

2008-02-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
stringent sanity-checking. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Summary of FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ally less than two hours later to assure me they'd love to have us. So on top of everything else good about the site, we have personal pull there. I really cannot imagine a better situation. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Summary of FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
us problems with our mediawiki installation; many of the special pages simply refuse to update, and it's hampering my cleanup. I'm hoping an upgrade to 1.11 will fix this. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

[Wesnoth-dev] UMC namespaces

2008-02-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
That's a detail that can be fixed with an hour or two of Python programming. In principle, what we could do is run a slighly enhanced wmllint every time an add-on is submitted to the campaign server and reject the add-on with an explanatory message if it detects a potential collision. --

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ek or two after 1.4 release and only then forked 1.5. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Nils Kneuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At the moment it looks like we are perfectly fine for 1.4... I have one issue left. Mordante rports that the file filtering in campaigns_clent.py doesn't work. I'll try to get that fixed before deadline. -- http://www.catb

[Wesnoth-dev] 12-month release interval considered harmful

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
hile I consider this a minor point relative to my previous ones, I think it is not insignificant. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms,

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.4 and freezing svn for some hours and 1.4 policy

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ease respond to that. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] 12-month release interval considered harmful

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark de Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:06:48AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > I think we should shorten our stable-release interval to 6 months. > > Personally I think the current cycle of about one year is rather nice. A > release costs quite

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] your mail

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ampaigns that I lifted or helped lift, and the seventh that I wrote, that did that. I doubt that pace of mainlining will continue. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
blem without overworking anyone. In truth, I think we could as much as double the number of campaigns we now carry without straining the mainline maintainers unduly. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Translations and the release cycle time

2008-03-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
line. Fair enough. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

[Wesnoth-dev] Why LEADERSHIP is broken, and how to fix it

2008-03-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
rating ability macros just so we can preserve the assumption that leadership level is the same as level also has the disadvantage of making more work for translators and culuttering up the help system. Let's solve this problem *once*. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Why LEADERSHIP is broken, and how to fix it

2008-03-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Nils Kneuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eric S. Raymond schrieb: > | Let's solve this problem *once*. > > My personal opinion is that it would be best to simply make > leadership act the same way as "heal&qu

[Wesnoth-dev] Roads in Wesnoth

2008-03-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
euvers easier to pull off (as, I think, they should be). The problem that would goes with that, though, is a slight disadvantage to factions which have neither dwarves nor cavalry. (I gave the road bonus to 'dwarvenfoot' to avoid penalizing the Knalgans.) I think this effect is weak enou

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] About terrain display

2008-03-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ould see adding were "impassable", "road", and "floor", and I concluded that "road" and "floor" don't need to be distinguished. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Roads in Wesnoth

2008-03-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
the above, then write a proof-of-concept scenario or two to demonstate that it gives interesting results. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Roads in Wesnoth

2008-03-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
gt; on roads to get the bonus? The former. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] gcc 4.3 clean up in 1.4 branch?

2008-03-19 Thread Eric S. Raymond
jeremy rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thx for doing the work on trunk, thix warning thing is going to be a bit > painfull at fist, but big benefits in the long run... > > I am not sure it's worth poirting to 1.4 though I concur. -- http://www.catb.org/

[Wesnoth-dev] State of the build system changeover

2008-03-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
these, step up. The very least we need to do is document all this stuff for future maintenance purposes. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] State of the build system changeover

2008-03-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
gt; > even look at it. Ivanovic's again, though Torangan might be helpful. > > What is done there ? I don't know. And I have a strong feeling I don't want to know. :-) -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] State of the build system changeover

2008-03-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
the SDL directory and/or the SDL_mixer library not getting linked in. > Is there some way for me to collect more information about this in order > to help diagnose the problem? the --debug=presub option might help. See the man page for details. -- http://ww

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] State of the build system changeover

2008-04-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
> library, but maybe that context isn't being passed to tests, only to the > build environment. File a bug and assign it to loonycyborg, our scons expert and newest committer. He's pretty responsive. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond __

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Release of 1.5.0

2008-04-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
gs right now. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Hello

2008-05-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
you might have an edge there. I suggest you hang out on the #wesnoth-dev list at irc.freenode.net. Many project devs, including me, will usually be available there to give you a bit of real-time guidance. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] release plans for 1.4.3 and 1.5.1 and string freeze on branches/1.4

2008-06-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
h (expect me back in about two weeks) but bug #11612 is an unfixed blocker somewhere in the save-load code. I really think this needs to be fixed before we can release. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] New approaches to add-ons management

2008-06-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ies would be a good thing. If this is actually implemented, I'll add requirements checking to wmllint or wmlscope immediately. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] New approaches to add-ons management

2008-06-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
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[Wesnoth-dev] Serious issues in the save/load code

2008-06-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
and do serious work on this? Is there anyone else looking for a meaty, important project to do? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] WML random and rand

2008-06-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
been used much yet, I hope most WML uses {RANDOM}. > > The other option is to make 'rand' and 'random' aliases but I don't > like aliases too much. > > Both those changes will break replay compatibility. Any ideas, comments? The first alternative seems clea

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Mentoring students

2008-09-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
> [1] http://ewh.ieee.org/sb/queensland/qut/ Yes, I think we are. Some of us (though not myself) have mentored students in connection with Google Summer of Code. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___ Wesnoth-d

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