2009/3/28 Russell White <rj...@fa...>
> Hi everyone. I'm new to the freetrain development team and I am
> looking forward to working with this project. This will be the first
> open source project I have worked on, and as such, I am excited to get
> started. I hope I can lean on some of your patience for the next
> while as I get up and going.
>
Hi Russell,
I sent you an email to your Sourceforge email address; since you're posting
here I am assuming it reached you.
Firstly, thanks for getting in touch. We really need some help to get some
momentum in this project. Daniel and Steven did a lot of the hard work with
this project, translating it from Japanese and getting it to work in more
modern .NET environments. However, we just lack the manpower/expertise to
make that final push into a cross platform codebase.
The first thing to do would probably be to try and build the Windows
version:
http://freetrain.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/trunk
This should build and run without much hassle.
The second thing would be to try and build the AgateLib branch:
http://freetrain.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/branches/FreeTrainAgate
This should build fine, but it will probably not run.
Basically we need to make the AgateLib branch run. That means modifying the
DirectDraw.net and DirectAudio.net sub-projects (you should see them in your
IDE of choice - MonoDevelop or Visual C#) to use AgateLib instead of
DirectX.
An easy first task might be to get the AgateLib we have in svn updated.
http://www.agatelib.org/
My workplace is a Microsoft shop and I daily use C#, C++, T-SQL,
> xml/xslt etc. Hopefully, I've learned enough to be of some use!
Well, the xml knowledge is handy as FreeTrain uses xml heavily - the plugins
are all defined in xml. At some point, we need to internationalise it, as
currently it is single-language only (basically most of the Japanese strings
are commented out).
I look forward to working with everyone!
We look forward to seeing you contribute! Let me know when you have
something and I can give you permissions to commit to the subversion
repository.
- Charles
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