Re: [Rails-devel] Rails 2.0 code pushed to repo for first alpha release

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

I would agree, the majority of players I know prefer to play 1830 as
permissive.  I'm going to go check out this branch now, looking
forward to seeing what it's like!

On 4 February 2014 13:58, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:
> The recent push to the repo included all code changes that will go into
> the first alpha release of Rails 2.0. I hope to prepare a package for
> upload to the webpage tonight, latest tomorrow.
>
> Anyone with a development account can already test it by checking-out
> branch rails_2_develop.
>
> Anyone who started development using the branch, please try to
> merge/rebase early as the merged route functionality touched a lot of
> classes. If you run into trouble, please contact me soon.
>
> It compiles, has all unit tests (which cover all of the new state
> package) and all but 2 test games running.
>
> However expect rough edges at a lot of places (especially some fields in
> the UI might display the name of the field instead of their content,
> especially those fields that are game specific).
>
> So what is really new:
> * Most of the work went into the new state and model technique, which
> only works under the hood. It should however strongly improve the
> redo/undo reliability.
>
> * Another major innovation is the new tile laying algorithm, which only
> allows tile lays confirming to the 18xx rules.
>
> However to test it in develop you have to add an argument to a run
> configuration e.g. -DRouteAlgorithm=Permissive
> The other settings are Restrictive and Semi-Restrictive.
>
> For the alpha release I will add the option to choose the tile-laying
> rule for each game with the correct default for each game.
>
> Only question is what should be the default for 1830? I suggest
> Permissive, as it still allows to play stricter if people disagree.
>
> Have fun,
> Stefan
>
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