[CF List] Questions about CF 1.0.0

Mon Jun 18 05:28:58 CDT 2001

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      Egbert Hinzen wrote:

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      > 2.) How can I build the 1.0.0-documentation?

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      >     There was no way to build handbook (ps) or spoiler (ps or html)

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      >     using the Makefiles.

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      >     (Yes, I installed all needed programs including the arch-files

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      >      not needed for new users 8-)).

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      >     BTW: I also found *no* place where I could download them. 8-(

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       cd doc; make spoiler.ps; make handbook.ps

Sorry, but you misunderstood my question. I tried this, but the compiling
died with lots of errors.

Can you build theese files? They would be useful on the download servers
and in the CVS...

Thanks before!

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       You can likely fix this by doing -server 127.0.0.1 (which amounts to localhost,

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      but string name is different).  Also, if your system actually has a real name

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      beyond localhost, you can use that.

Running. Thanks.

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      > 4.) Do you have plans to add localization to CF?

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       Done properly, localization should purely be a client issue (ie, connecting to

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      an american server, I should be able to tell my client I want german as my

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      language).  This also gets a bit harder.

Using GNU's gettext this wouldn't be such a big problem...
We've done it with freeciv (an server/client civilization clone) and it
runs well...

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       But probably the bigger reason this won't get done anytime really soon is that

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      for most people, this is not a high priority issue or something they want to

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      spend time on.

Nothing can be said against that...

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