Posting patches...

[Kenneth G. <ken...@lm...>]

Tim Riker wrote:

> I'd love to see the new feature patches up there!

Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider a "patch"?  If a
developer adds a feature that affects a bunch of files, should he (or she!)
submit just the files that have changed, all the files in a tarball file,
etc?

From the changes I've made, it seems like adding each new flag affects a
minimum of six files:

   * include/global.h
   * src/common/Flag.cxx
   * src/bzflag/HUDRenderer.cxx
   * src/bzflag/ShotPath.cxx
   * src/bzflag/menus.cxx
   * src/bzfs/bzfs.cxx

This is just to get everything up and running (including the help menus,
right-clicking on a tank, the Flag Help that comes up, etc), and this
doesn't even include adding the new functionality of the flag!!   With the
number of files that would have to change, it seems to me that tarring
everything up would certainly make life easiest, but I'm not sure how that
will affect those poor Microsoft-users out there...  :-)


-- Ken