Re: [Xconq-developers] GDL upgrade problem

[Lincoln P. <sa...@sb...>]

Edward Hurst-Frost wrote:
> I've written a GDL to teach myself about the various features. I 
> started writing it against the version at sources.redhat.com 
> <http://sources.redhat.com> which I mistook for the latest version 
> (can't we disable CVS access there to save confusion?). But have since 
> migrated to the sourgeforge version.
>
> Now that I'm on the latest version I'm getting a low_init_warning 
> saying 'Testing side against garbled sideclass expression'.
>
> There's no linenumber, and after a little investigation I can't see 
> why intro.g works and mine doesn't.

In the time since we stopped using the sources.redhat.com repository, I 
seem to remember several changes that broke compatibility with older 
games.  I'm pretty sure we updated all of the games in the library to 
work with the changes, but if you were writing a game based on the 
documentation on sources.redhat.com (also outdated), you could certainly 
be running into one of those changes.

However, I don't remember there being any changes to the kernel that 
forced changes to intro.g since the move to SourceForge, so maybe it's 
something else.


I can feel your pain, though.  I was collaborating with Elijah on a 
turn-based RPG (similar to Angband), but since the game was guaranteed 
to do things that no Xconq game has ever done before, we decided to 
write a suite of much simpler games that could each test a single idea.  
One of these (plutonium.g) had a problem involving research that nobody 
was able to figure out.  Maybe the time has come for me to revisit it, 
though.


-- 
Lincoln Peters
<sa...@sb...>

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