[crossfire] Crossfire server code cleanup/janitorial

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.

Thanks for your interest in Crossfire :)

Concerning the first point, I'd say Windows is relevant (though having 
statistics on clients running Windows would be nice), others I don't know.


For point 2), not sure, I think the code is globally ANSI C. See next point 
though :)


And for point 3), that's another can of worm entirely :)

My personal reply would be "right now I can more about content and gameplay 
than code, so let's forget refactorings until we really need it (hitting a 
wall the current code can't handle, for instance).


:)


Regards


Nicolas






Le samedi 19 avril 2014 10:46:34, Tolga Dalman a écrit :
> Dear community,
> 
> first of all: thank you very much for your efforts in the development of
> crossfire. I'm a keen player of this game since around 2002.
> 
> Recently, I noticed several cleanup and janitorial work in the trunk. I
> wonder whether there should be done more. Looking through the code, I have
> to say that the overall quality of the server sources is really good.
> However, crossfire is a software that has evolved since at least 1995.
> 
> Hence, I would like to ask you, the developer community, a number of
> general questions about the future of the crossfire (server) development:
> 
> 1. What platforms are still relevant ? Beside Linux and BSD, I found
> references to these OSes:  win32, hurd, hpux, ultrix, osf1, sgi, sun, vax,
> ibm032.
> 
> 2. What C standard is relevant ? Moving towards C99 or even C11 would allow
> large portions of cleanups (standard functions, types, language constructs,
> etc).
> 
> 3. What about the use of C++ (2011) ? It is clearly possible to smoothly
> convert existing code to C++ which allows better maintenance of the code.
> 
> Please understand these questions as a constructive effort to further
> improve the quality of the current code basis.
> 
> Best regards
> Tolga Dalman
> 
> 
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