From: Ludwig N. <lud...@gm...> - 2002-11-28 13:19:31
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Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:51:30PM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > > I realized that xqf only supports commercial games. I think this is > > a litte unfair and we should support free(GPL) games as well. e.g. > > FreeCiv or BzFlag. Would be handy if those games could be queried by > > some protocol that qstat already supports. Does anyone play such > > games or has contact to a maintainer? > > I'm all for this. I play FreeCiv every now and then, and while the civ > client already has a server browser, it'd be nice to have it in XQF too. > > Contact with freeciv should be very easy, their devel mailing list is > quite active. Great. Can you ask them if they could make freeciv compatible with qstat? That could be done either by patching qstat or civserver. The master just needs to provide a list of ip addresses by http. > > I found a service that makes it possible to determine the country of > > an ip address (http://www.maxmind.com/). They provide a GPL library > > for that purpose. They state that they update the free database > > every month. Shall we add that feature to xqf? > > Does it mean that for every player in a server you'd have to query > maxmind for the origin? Sounds expensive... but if people want it.. :) No, one needs to download a database file. It is available from their website. We could either distribute it with xqf or have xqf download it every now and then to keep it up to date. I don't know if they would be happy about the additional traffic though. > PS: Ludwig, mutt keeps adding you to Cc:. Is this intentional? If not, I > guess you want to fix your headers :) Press L instead of g or r. You may need to add 'xqf-developer' to the 'lists' command. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Lud...@gm... //\ PGP Key ID: FF8135CE V_/_ ICQ: 52166811 |