jopenrpg-devel

[Jopenrpg-devel] OpenRPG 2.0

[David H. <je...@ya...>]

What are your thoughts on the talk of OpenRPG 2.0 and how will it affect jOpenrpg? 

Fortunately, things at my work are cooling off a bit so I will be able to contribute a little more
time to jOpenRPG (I have been reading some Python and JavaCC material)

Thanks
Dave

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Re: [Jopenrpg-devel] OpenRPG 2.0

[Ted B. <te...@us...>]

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On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:59 am, David Hudson wrote:
> What are your thoughts on the talk of OpenRPG 2.0 and how will it affect
> jOpenrpg?

At the moment, I really don't know. <sighs>  In the best of times I was having 
trouble keeping pace with OpenRPG's development.  Now there are several 
active developers, and the possibility of a new version.  It hasn't helped 
that I keep missing the dev get-togethers, where I could chime in on how I 
think the program should grow.

> Fortunately, things at my work are cooling off a bit so I will be able to
> contribute a little more time to jOpenRPG (I have been reading some Python
> and JavaCC material)

That's cool :)  j is rather a wreck at the moment.  I have a lot of ideas and 
plans, but trying to shoehorn them into the existing code has proven 
difficult.  The more I work with it, the more the current codebase looks like 
the one I should plan on throwing away :/

Where does your interest in jOpenRPG lie?  Does anything in particular strike 
your fancy, or is it the notion of a java client?


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Re: [Jopenrpg-devel] OpenRPG 2.0

[David H. <je...@ya...>]

> 
> That's cool :)  j is rather a wreck at the moment.  I have a lot of ideas and 
> plans, but trying to shoehorn them into the existing code has proven 
> difficult.  The more I work with it, the more the current codebase looks like 
> the one I should plan on throwing away :/
> 
> Where does your interest in jOpenRPG lie?  Does anything in particular strike 
> your fancy, or is it the notion of a java client?
> 
> 
This is a tough one. My interest in jOpenRPG was in a few things. First, I have an interest in
RPGs of course and wanted to contribute to a project. Secondly, due to professional reasons
improving my Java, Python and XML skills was pretty important to me. As a result jopenRPG was the
perfect project. I know I have not contributed a heavy amount of code, but I have learned a lot in
the process (especially about CVS, and Java IDEs). 

Nevertheless, it was bit frustrating to be behind OpenRPG and now with a new version coming up
(well at least in some planning stages), I was wondering if it ever be possible either to catch up
or to provide something uniquely useful as a java client. To complicate matters, my company has
decided to downplay Java apps (at least as front-end GUI apps) and decided that we should return
to C++. Of course, the talk of C++ for OpenRPG has piqued my interest, but I not only feel loyalty
to jOpenRPG (it is the first and only open-source app I have ever contributed to), I also am not
sure that I would contribute in any meaningful manner to OpenRPG since my C++ is *really* rusty.


I am not sure what to do. Of course there is always the possibility of completely re-doing the
code in Java from the ground up. Or we could throw ur weight behind the new OpenRPG and steer it
in the directions we like. oh well... For the meantime I am still going to look at some Javacc and
Pyhton/Jython code and wait and see about the openRPG 2.0.

Thanks
dave


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