Re: [Realtimebattle-devel] Network

[Benoit R. <rou...@es...>]

> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Benoit ROUSSEAU wrote:
> > How to specify to copy a file in a specific directory in the Makefile.a=
m
> > I would like to put them all together in a RTB/.bin directory for the
> > moment...
> Look in the Robot directory of how we did it there. It isn't useful for
> others than developers to do so because when installed they is put in the=
 same
> place anyway.

It was just for my Makefile.am, so that I wouldn't have to go in each
directory to find the exec file.

> > I can remember that you want to have this binary file.
> > Maybe we can start the game by typing "RealTimeBattle -LaunchServer 456=
7"
> > That would launch a 'root' client, and than the server itself. And than
> > run the other client just with "RealTimeBattle -ServerPort 4567" for th=
e
> > other client...
> > Is it what you was meaning last time?
> > I will try to have something like that this week end.
>=20
> To start the game it shouldn't be necessary to do anything but the
> standard "RealTimeBattle" commando. I had in mind that client's should
> connect to a server started by this commando and the user should be able
> to choose which clients she wants to have in the tournament she wants to
> start. It should of course be possible to start such games with a
> tournament file. A robot (client) should be started with a commando like
> "rtb-netrobot myrobot.robot" which takes care of connecting to the server
> and converting all messages from/to the pipes and sends them from/to the =
server.
> If you have any other ideas of how it should work, please explain them to=
 us.

Maybe you can have a look on TEG (Tenes Empanadas Graciela)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/teg/
I tryed to help them a bit, but I'm not very usefull (I have one library
missing :-( )
The way they launch the server and the robots seems pretty good.

>=20
> > Hej (My first swedish work :-) )
>=20
> Hej p=E5 dig!

Not too far, it was my very first word :-)

> >
> > I think the work on network is 'finished' (Except that I just had a
> > problem with cvs... I will have a look to see if everything is correct)=
=2E
> > Now we have to define all the packets we will need, and how to store da=
ta
> > (i.e. robot name, arena, ...) the chat will exchange.
> > I would not be here next week, but I will work on it (maybe find bugs o=
r
> > things like that).
> >
>=20
> Fine, we go travel next week, I go to the north of Sweden to walk in the
> mountains and Erik goes to Dublin for two weeks to play the Japanese game=
 of go.

So good luck to you both :-)
I gonna take I little sun before facing the far North :-) (What the
weather like in mid-August???)

> We have been lacking in inspiration for RTB some months now, but I will
> soon try to see if I can port RTBv1.0.x to windows, I have finally got a
> hang on how to do such a thing.

Very good thing I thing... A couple of friends asked me to do it for
windows because they were too laisy to learn about Linux :-(