Re: [Super-tux-devel] GotM For March 2004

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb Ingo Ruhnke um 16:25:
> ri...@ae... writes:
> 
> >  I have previously mentioned this; I think SuperTux main need is
> > levels and currently, using the level editor is not that fun So I
> > think we should hold on a bit, since an interface is already in the
> > way.
> 
> My windstille editor is already pretty useable (supports multiple
> tilemaps, objects, tilebrushes, undo/redo, multiple buffers, minimap,
> is scriptable, etc) and I already created a handfull of levels with
> it. I'll try to create a release in the next few days, for the moment
> people can check it out at (requires ClanLib-0.7 CVS and guile-1.6,
> start with ./supertux -e in the src/ directory):
> 
> svn co svn://clanlib.org/Games/Windstille/trunk/
> 
> > The code is also in no situation for being hacked by other ppl,
> > since it is not that flexible.
> 
> It doesn't has to be all that much flexible, as long as it can hold
> the feature that are needed for a 0.1 release it shouldn't be a
> problem and even the 0.0.5 release already gets close to that. 0.1
> isn't meant as a YoshiIsland killer, just as a little useable and fun
> Jump'n Run and that should be doable.
> 
> > Futhermore, it was also decided that prior to the 0.0.6, SuperTux
> > will be rewritten in C++.
> 
> Unless I am completly mistaken, there are no plans in the near future
> to rewrite it in C++, that was more a plan for the far future (ie.
> past 0.1) and more of a slow migration.

Rewrite is definitivly the wrong word. A soft migration in cases, where
C++ design and features ( string vs char and ptox vs. this) are
superior, is the right description.

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer