[Pybem-developers] Re: base36!

[Anthony B. <ab...@ii...>]

At 8:52 PM +0800 25/6/02, Adrian Smith wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Anthony Briggs wrote:
>  > At some point, Adrian said:
>  > >The PLY package you emailed me the pointer to looks excellent.
>  > >Much better in Python using introspection than in C
>>  >(where you had to create a file, run it to create source code,
>>  >then compile the source code, .. egghh!)
>>
>>  The things that drew me to it were:
>>
>>  a) it's been extensively debugged (by a CompSci class, no less)
>>  b) it has reasonable documentation, and a fair few examples
>>  c) it has a lot of testing modules, which should serve as additional
>>  documentation.
>>
>>  Hopefully we should be able to get something off the ground fairly
>  > quickly, as far as items and skills.
>  >
>Yes, it is very clean and clear.
>Not just a wrapper of lex/yacc but done better!
>
>I'm almost inspired to get onto it..

Almost? ;) I'm planning on doing some work on items/skills. But I've 
got some washing up to do first.  I'll work on that if you do some 
parser writing ;)

And a thought: we could make some kind of skill/production based game 
(instead of Boojum) as a test. Something like - whoever builds a 
certain sort of building (a cathedral?) in a city wins that city, and 
a certain number of cities wins the game? The catch being that you 
need skills/raw materials to build, and there's a build heirarchy, so 
you can't just whack up a cathedral... Maybe this'd be interesting 
without combat (ie just raw production).

Ant
ps. Just realised this should be on the developer's list.

pps. Did I tell you I had some emails from a guy trying to set up 
Thera? It worked, so I guess it passes one test. Though I haven't got 
any feedback from him yet as far as what he found hard, and what he 
didn't.
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