Re: [Rails-devel] [18xx] Rails

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, brett lentz wrote:

> The down side, of course, is that we'd need to rewrite all of the GUI
> code.  The GUI code isn't great, but it's currently functioning enough
> to be usable.
>
> Unless John is volunteering to do the porting, I don't really see
> where this suggestion moves the project forward. Tossing out our
> currently functioning GUI code and redoing the same thing over again
> rather than working on either adding new features or improving
> existing capability just doesn't seem very productive to me.

I was just offering an alternative to Java applets, which I believe would 
entail signicant changes to the UI anyway, but I agree it would be better 
to add network play to the existing code and just require people to run a 
jar from the command line if they want to play.

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