Re: Hearts considered?

["Corey Burger" <corey burger gmail com>]

On 5/26/06, Sander Marechal <s marechal jejik com> wrote:
> 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?

I am really not the person to ask about that, as I don't code.

Corey