[CF-Devel] new cut 1.4.0 and realestate idea

[Mark Wedel]

Todd Mitchell wrote:

  As a side note, the preferred content for e-mail is text only, not text/html 
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      Well the new 1.4 cut installs well, everything worked except the python 
     
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      plugin (I still had to modify the plugin Makefile, remove the references 
     
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      to the 1.5 libs (since it correctly detected and used the 2.x Python.h 
     
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      to compile) and remake the plugin , but that is pretty painless anyway.)
     
     
  Yeah, looking at aclocal.m4 - the first block of code:

                for lib in python{,2.2,2.1,2.0} ; do
                         AC_CHECK_LIB($lib, PyArg_ParseTuple,[PYTHON_LIB="-l$lib"])
                         if test "x$PYTHON_LIB" != "x" ; then
                                 break
                         fi
                 done

  Doesn't work.  lib would just be like 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, which is not the actual 
name of the file.  In addition, its not passing any load path information to the 
client.

  Since there are some obvious dependencies, what should really happen is that 
we look for the library in the same version as we found the header file.  I'll 
look into cleaning this   - problem is that this is difficult for me to test.




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      Three problems I can see so far -
     
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      1. you have to wait for the map to reset before you can see or enter 
     
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      your new pad.
     
     
  Presuming here you mean the parent map (/city/city), this is a bit of a 
problem - difficult to know when, if any, that map may reset.



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      anyone have thoughts on this?  Am I missing anything vital?  Someone 
     
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      have a better plan?
     
     
  How is the map exit updated?  How is the ownership of these maps done?  I 
thought some of the idea of these lots would be that only the owner could do 
something, yet anyone could visit them - more like the common apartment building.


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      I installed Sorcerer Linux a bit ago to try it out and noticed that 
     
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      Crossfire is one one of the install spells you can cast.  Unfortunatly 
     
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      it is 'cast crossfire' and it gets the whole ball game- arches, 
     
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      maps, client, server.  Think it would be better to make three install 
     
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      spells: client, server+maps, and the jED + arches.  Anyway, have to look 
     
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      into that later.
     
     
  Note that no one on the crossfire development team (that I know of at least) 
is actually responsible for determining what OS's/kits crossfire gets bundled 
with - rather, someone who works on that distribution decides to grab it.  So we 
don't have a lot of control on that.