Re: [crossfire] Improved/redone client.

2006-10-15 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
The idea is that the current clients display way too much information; someone has described them as geeky. Typically, when playing, you're interested: in the map (always), hp/sp/grace/food (almost always), important messages (almost always), chat (often), exp (often), and look list

Re: [crossfire] Client-side scripting

2006-10-15 Thread Kevin R. Bulgrien
LOL,,, see my post of a few minutes ago under client improvements. Man, another dependency... ;-) Never heard of lua before. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire

Re: [crossfire] Client-side scripting

2006-10-15 Thread Alex Schultz
Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote: LOL,,, see my post of a few minutes ago under client improvements. Man, another dependency... ;-) Never heard of lua before. Well, I was under the impression that Ryo was planning on putting the lua source base bundled with the client source. It's rather small, and to

Re: [crossfire] SVN revions in version

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Wedel
Alex Schultz wrote: A few times, tracking the svn revision instead of the $Id strings has been brought up. IMHO this should be done, both in the client and server. I propose we implement it as follows in both: Create a version.h file containing something like: #include svnversion.h

Re: [crossfire] SVN revions in version

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Wedel
Brendan Lally wrote: I'm not sure it is such a great idea to send the revision number to the metaserver, certainly not if the metaserver is going to push that information out to clients, in that case, someone who wished to be annoying could look for servers with revisions predating certain

Re: [crossfire] SVN revions in version

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Wedel
Alex Schultz wrote: Brendan Lally wrote: I'm not sure it is such a great idea to send the revision number to the metaserver, certainly not if the metaserver is going to push that information out to clients, in that case, someone who wished to be annoying could look for servers with revisions

Re: [crossfire] SVN revions in version

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Wedel
Christian Hujer wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 19:15 Brendan Lally wrote: Likewise, although the clients need only open a connection to the metaserver to recieve the server list, having the official clients send their revision numbers by default would give some indication as to which

Re: [crossfire] SVN revions in version

2006-10-15 Thread Alex Schultz
Mark Wedel wrote: It should actually get that version number from autoconf, like it does now. Then as part of that, for official releases, the -dev tag can be removed from configure.ac I didn't know that autoconf currently stored that. That makes sense to me. In addition, if the