[Unreal-users] Win32 Server

[David F. <Da...@ke...>]

Hi guys,
                I am going on holliday for a while ... and would like some
people to send in bug reports / whish lists for the windows server, so i can
have a stab at implementing them this holiday and also so i can see what
sort of direction we are moving in...
if you have already sent requests ... please send them again ... so i can
see if i have done them ... or if i have forgotten, i can then do them =)

        The servers current state is: not_working_and_in_lots_of_pieces

        So we should have a new fully featured server arriving for the
release of 3.1 or what ever the next release is ;P

Current things being done:
       -Full Service support ... ie it runs as a hidden Win9x / WinNT
service ... with all the functionality that brings
        -All the gui has been moved to a seperate program that will
communicate to the server and send commands, this will enable the GUI to
administer any server which has this feature, ie you can manage remotley
Unix servers from win machines and (eventually X)
        -Better statistics monitoring
        -Fully integrated setup system
        -Information system ... ie O:Lines ... G:Lines K:Lines inface
Any:Line
        -New optional GUI style
        -Some other things i cant remember at 0030hrs

Things that i have no intention of doing:
        -Implementing DLL hooks for things like bots and services, if i were
to do it, i would do it _properly_ (unlike some others(no names)) and would
involve rewriting many of the server functions ... and i really dont know
enough about the internals to keep up with Stskeeps and codemastr's
modifications. ... so dont hold your breath ... your not getting them ... be
efficient ... take load from the server and have services as an external EXE
that links to a server and leaves the wircd alone =)

Things that are on the adgenda
    - Porting of services ... . sts's thing

Things i am doing but have not looked at yet:
    - i have had a number of complaints about H:Lines and U:Lines and the
wircd ... if people could give me a full report on what happens (in an
e-mail --- ill read it that way)i will have a go at figuring what is going
on



Thanks !!!

Dave Flynn (DrBin)

Unreal Win32GUI Coder