[Rails-devel] Patchfiles

[Freek D. <sf_...@ma...>]

Hi,

I recently downloaded 18xx rails, and like it (even though I only own 
1856, which is not yet complete).

I like to help, though I have only very limited time on my hands. 
However, I might be able to make minor adjustments for things I run 
into. For example in the UI, it is sometimes beneficial to see more 
information (e.g. how many trains the bank still has, the upgrade value 
of a city while laying a tile, stricter tile-laying rules -companies can 
now place unreachable tile-, saving of preferences between games, 
unlimited tiles -a variant I prefer to play-, perhaps even automatic 
route calculation)

So two questions: what are the coding rules? In particular to spacing? 
I'm most customed to Python at the moment (not Java, sorry), and I'm 
getting nuts by the mix of spaces, 3-space tabs, 4-space tabs and 
8-space tabs. Please pick one (I don't care which) and be consistent.

Secondly, how should I submit these minor patches? Sending them to the 
list, uploading to sourceforge, ...?

For starters, here is a 4-line patch so I can specify a preferred game 
type in my.properties.

Regards,
Freek Dijkstra

PS: I'm using Mac OS X, and made a Xcode project (instead of using 
Eclipse). If anyone is interested, let me know.