[Prboom-devel] introduction

[Jon D. <li...@al...>]

Hello folks,

Florian kindly gave me SVN access ages ago, and I hadn't done anything
with it, so this week I have reset my password and created the branches
I intended to work on.

This email is just a quick hello to introduce myself and explain what
the branches are for.

I'm Jon Dowland, infrequent poster to here; I wrote some of the
beginnings of the checksum stuff; I maintain freedoom upstream, and
several doom packages (including prboom) in Debian GNU/Linux.

Branch #1 is "testsuite": to finish off the checksum stuff and develop a
proper regression test suite to catch demo desyncs. When this is
finished, coders should have more confidence checking stuff into trunk.
The intention is for the core of this code to be included in chocolate
doom too, and for the algorithm used to generate the checksums to be
identical.

Branch #2 is "dynlump": code to dynamically compose graphics resources
for the game at runtime. This is so we don't have to embed static lumps
of extra menu item text in prboom.wad anymore. In Debian, we have to
strip them and replace them with fairly ugly graphics generated using
imagemagick. This might potentially have other applications too: I'm
personally quite interested in dynamic content generation (textures,
levels, music, everything!) although that stuff would never be prboom
trunk material, it might be easier to experiment with the dynlump
infrastructure underneath.

I have some WIP code for branch 2 lying around somewhere which (if it
still applies against the trunk I branched from) I'll check in as soon
as I find it, warts and all.


Yours,

-- 
Jon Dowland