Re: Re: [CF-Devel] server 1.6.0?

Thu Mar 25 14:01:41 CST 2004

Umm guys - 
The *Server* does not use GTK, SDL or any such nonsense AFAIK...

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      > Relevant opinion to this discussion:

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      > The most useful thing we could do to increase stability on Windows (and 

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      > everything else for that matter) would be to focus on using GTK 2.0 or 

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      > SDL exclusively.  It would behoove us to look into focusing all our 

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      > client coding resources on one client instead of keeping the current 

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      > divide, since portability will be *MUCH* easier if we don't have to 

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      > fight with several different code bases and above all it will make 

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      > designing for the client very much simpler.

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      In my opinion, I kind-of like that divide, because there are certain things you can do with an SDL-only client that you can't do with GTK per se. Although these days I hear you can use GTK to render to a frame buffer, an SDL-only client would probably be faster on an older system than the GTK client, so there are a lot of arguments for or against either side.

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      There are advantages to having all the resources focused on one client:

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      	* Bugs would get fixed faster 

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      	* Things would be implemented faster

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      	* etc.

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      But, there are certain advantages to having the SDL client:

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      	* It's faster on older systems 

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      	* It requires less to compile

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      	* It's portable to platforms that GTK may not be

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      Those are my 2 cents :P,

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      Tim

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