Re: GGZ integration and packaging plans

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the release planning for GGZ is heating up a bit, with version 1.0 to appear
> around autumn. My suggestion would be that starting with GNOME 2.25, the
> features of the new version should be used.

I'm looking very much forward to GGZ version 1.0!

In general, I would welcome new features from GGZ, as long as they
don't break too much of the existing network code in gnome-games.

> One improvement in particular is
> that each package can now have its own ggz.modules file and doesn't need to
> run post-inst scripts to somehow merge the module descriptions. Instead,
> AC_GGZ_CONFIG is simply called with the name of the package
> (i.e. "gnome-games") as the third parameter and that's it.

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but anything to make things simpler 
would be nice.

> In order to coordinate the release better, I would also like to know if there
> are specific plans regarding multiplayer capabilities in GNOME games.

I don't think there are any specific plans for any large changes to the
multiplayer features. The one thing that I think would be nice to have 
some time in the future, is to start using the statistics features from 
GGZ, to have things like tournaments and online communities.


> What about the glChess client code?

I think this code works well, but it is separate from GGZ at the moment.

> What about the changes to libggz-gtk
> on both sides, is anyone planning a review of those?

There are no such plans. Is there a need for it?


> Another area looking for Gtk+ coders is the display of player photos or
> avatars. The current games don't do that yet, e.g. as part of the
> seats/spectators dialogue, but it would be a highly appreciated addition. It
> would already work with the current code, i.e. 0.0.14, and most likely needs
> some asynchronous picture loading code.

This seems like a good idea.

 - Andreas