Re: [qub] More on imageflipper... And plugins.

[Rusty B. <bo...@sj...>]

Hey, I backed out my imageflipper changes, and finished save/load... it
will take me a while to clean things up but I will definitely check it in
tonight, probably in the next hour or two.

> I don't think the sharing will work well once we get into network synching.
> To save effort, I'd like to use the same serialization technique for the
> savegame file and the network traffic.

Right now the only Serializer subclass I have is SerialTree, and the only
file format it handles is XML, but the serialized objects don't know that,
so it should be easy to add other file formats to SerialTree, or to use a
Serializer which writes to a binary stream, or which inserts into a database
(whee hee hee) without touching the serialize/deserialize code in QPiece,
QBoard, etc. etc.

More blather later tonight; now I'll work on checking stuff in.

--Rusty

P.S.  As far as MySQL goes, I've never used it, but I used to work on
database applications on Sybase (& database design & query tuning), so
relational database stuff is fine with me!