Re: [Rails-devel] Starting on a client/server

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

Just a quick update...

I'm still working on getting the client/server parts working.

Currently, I've gotten the startup code refactored, and am just
starting to tie it into the network bits.  Unfortunately, the fall
tends to be a busy time for me, so I haven't had as much time work on
this as I'd have liked.

I'm not quite ready to push this back into cvs yet. I'd like to get a
bit further into having a minimally functional client/server. Being
that this is an open source project, perhaps I shouldn't "go dark" for
too much longer. I've been using github.com to push my changes between
home and work, so that I can work in both places whenever I have a
free moment. (Note: this doesn't mean we're changing revision control
systems. This is just my personal place to store code. When I feel
it's ready, I'll push this code back into cvs.)

So, you're welcome to check the current state of things here:
http://github.com/wakko666/18xx/tree/master

There's some fairly major reorganization that I've done, and I've
totally refactored the XML parsing. Both of these I'd like to see
comments on before I push this into our code repository. Things are
still in heavy flux, so none of this is set, and I really don't want
to shake things up too much without make sure you guys are also happy
with it.  My hope is that some of these changes will help make
reorganizing the game engine code a little easier.

Mostly, I just wanted to update everyone that this isn't vapor, and
I'm still working on it. :-)

---Brett.