Re: [Pybem-developers] Re: base36!

[Adrian S. <fo...@ii...>]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Anthony Briggs wrote:

> 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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OK, deal, you do the items/skills and I'll do a parser.
We should be able to read in the items/skills from an XML file.

Adrian