[Explorer-devel] Galaxy Explorer enters 2.10 beta

[Alexander S. <su...@fo...>]

Hi everybody,

Galaxy Exprorer enters 2.10 beta phase. Enclosed is a pertinent excerpt from
the HISTORY file (note that some of the changes were announced in 2.9.1 beta
that is eclipsed by the current beta release).


This is an incremental improvement release that still adds new
interpretation
of certain game database fields. The following was changed:

- The command O DEFAULT was brought back in order: it would actually forget
to change player's default posture upon interpreting input (thanks to Ian
Kelly for the bug report).

- Extended report format has got an ability to skip certain optional output
depending on the bit setting of the _GextendedReport flag. Note that this
setting naturally affects the XML report as well.

- Likewise, blind player and planet naming schemes were introduced by
tweaking
the interpretation of the _GlongPlanetNames flag and its transformation into
_GnamingScheme value.

- Lots of old compilation flags were rearranged accordingly.

- A new utility, MapChk, was created to allow judges assess the quality of
a map without actually seeing it.

- File streams were fixed to allow them to work with the newest GNU
libraries
that are somewhat stricter about the stream flags.

- The template .forward file got the required double quotes around the
MailProcessor invocation sequence.

- All main programs finally started to use the return statement instead of
the
exit() call.

A couple of minor bugs was fixed in the process as well.


Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Depending on the reaction to the
suggestion of the control over the winning criteria expressed in the earlier
Thermopylae announcement, I may add an extra field to the database in the
run-up to the full 2.10 release.

Best regards.

Alexander