[CF-Devel] python plugin

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Mark Wedel wrote:

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      I think that in the configure script
     
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      line 13038:
     
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      for dir in /usr{,local}/include/python{,2.2,2.1,2.0} ; do
     
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      should rather be:
     
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      for dir in /usr{,/local}/include/python{,2.2,2.1,2.0} ; do
     
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      as i assume it wants to look rather in /usr/local than in /usrlocal .
     
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      Yeah, apparantly I fixed that at one point, and somehow managed to 
     
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      unfix that. 
     
     

Ya you fixed it before.

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      On my local server the plugin seems to work stable.
     
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      Is there a technical or a gameplay reason, it is not
     
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      enabled on metalforge?
     
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      I believe the plugin is in fact installed on metalforge. It's just by 
     
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      default, I don't think anything uses the plugin, and I haven't 
     
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      bothered to do bits to set up stuff to use it. 
     
     
Prior to the path fixes to the plugin - it wasn't wise to include python 
powered map stuff into the regular map sets, so there was just some 
stuff you could set up manually from the unlinked folder. That was fixed 
not too long ago by gros so there is no reason that carefully 
constructed python powered stuff can't be included in the default 
mapsets (meaning that they degrade well without the plugin either by not 
allowing access to the area or by *properly* not working.)

I have worked over the IPO (Imperial Post Office) scripts so that they 
could work by default (no admin intervention required) if anyone wanted 
to put the IPO on the map so to speak - this is only for Bigworld, but 
could be put into the Smallworld mapset too (I didn't in case it somehow 
messed up mids server since I think he was using the IPO as it was, and 
because I wanted to seperate the banking stuff from the mail stuff to 
keep things clean and avoid clever monkeys.) Including the IPO wouldn't 
break anything, but maybe it would be better to alter it so that you 
couldn't enter unless the plugin was installed just to avoid any 
confusion... I was also thinking to put a couple of slotmachines in 
Goths tavern. The slots would degrade nicely anyway if there was no 
plugin installed.

The python plugin is pretty stable as far as I can tell so long as you 
don't do silly stuff which may not be stable in the crossfire code (like 
remove objects that aren't there). It would be good to have some more 
python powered stuff built since it would serve as an example of the 
usefulness of the plugin (and provide example code to mapmakers) and 
encourage more servers to run it.

This was a while ago so I may have to double check my facts and figures, 
but everything I have said I believe to be true.


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