Re: [Civil-devel]Re: Kaput?

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Michael Earl wrote:

>Well, I'm still very interested, but my time has been very limited over
>the last six months.  It should be better over the next few...

Time is always a problem, but all "pet projects" face the same thing, so
it's just a fact of life. I assume I'll have a lot more time this year, as
I think our company is going *puff*. :)

>Beyond that, what I think is mostly needed now is driven by
>playtesting/ers. I haven't gotten the map editor working on my box yet,
>real playable maps would be a key thing now... and users...

We won't get any kind of users before the thing is playable, that's
absolutely sure. It's a bit of a Catch-22.

What's up with the map editor? I *think* you can get PyQt in woody now,
just apt-get python-pyqt. Seems to be a new version too, so it should
work. After that I think the bang-path may be fubar, but that's just
because the Debian folks can never decide what the python binary should be
called. Apart from that the rest should be pure bugs... The editor does
suck pretty badly, and it's not yet finished (read: usable for a full
scenario), but that kind of work is just so boring to do. Filling in
huge amounts of callbacks for a non-trivial GUI app is simply boring. And
the design sucks too, but I think it can eventually be raw-hacked to do
what needs to be done. Sure, I hate it too.

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