Re: Hearts considered?

[Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com>]

Corey Burger wrote:
> > > It would be great if you heart could be developed for eventual
> > > inclusion into gnome-games.
> >
> > I had hoped to propose this one day when it's close to a 1.0 release or
> > thereabouts. At the moment I'm working hard to get the basics done so I
> > can do a 0.1 release. I'd be gratefull to have Hearts in gnome-games
> > some day, if the (future) maintainer will have it.
>
> Very cool! My one concern is the use of Lua, which afaik, is not a
> blessed GNOME dep. Might Python work in it's place?

Probably. I haven't really looked into python all that much. For some 
reason it dropped off my list quite early but I can't remember why 
exactly. I did look into scheme/guile but the C interface didn't seem 
too friendly, plus Lua is used in game developemnt quite a bit so I 
opted for that instead (hoping to attract more AI developers - not my 
strong point).

The big plus that Lua has for me is that I can run several totally 
separate instances of the enviroment inside C. Each player (and the hint 
AI) is a separate enviroment (lua_State*) so player scripts can freely 
use globals and what-not without ever stepping on eachother. Does 
scheme/guile or python provides similar functionality?

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Sander