Re: rentoy game for aisleriot (was: Re: Aisleriot ideas)

["Timothy S. Nelson" <wayland wayland id au>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Christian Persch wrote:

> Hi;
>
> Am Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:38:27 +0100
> schrieb Francisco Yuste <fran yuste com>:
> > > > > B.	Have an XML file for data associated with each game
> > > > >
> > > > >  	It could include data like:
> > > > > - The name of the game (allows punctuation, etc)
> > > > > - The Category/Subcategory of the game (is it like Klondike?
> > > > > FreeCell? Spider?)
> > > > > - The number of decks (single/double deck)
> > > > > - The type of deck (ie. have some cards been removed?
> >
> > I fully agree with this feature.
> > As Scheme coder, with regard to rentoy project[1], I'm strongly
> > interested on having the option to choose any Spanish deck[2].
>
> That game info would include which card deck the game needs; still the
> scheme itself doesn't need access to that info.

	One of my goals when I'm coding something is (if possible) to not have 
to maintain the same data in two different places.  If it's in the XML, and 
the code repeats it, it only needs to be in one place.

> > As aisleriot game developer (and possible package maintainer), I would
> > like to make work my program just by copying files, without editing
> > the common framework files of aisleriot.
>
> Adding a new game to aisleriot is very easy and detailed at the bottom
> of the README file
> [http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/tree/aisleriot/README]. I
> don't think we want to support adding games from outside our repo,
> though.

	Just wanted to point out that that last sentence is open to a variety 
of interpretations.

> So from a quick look at your 'rentoy' repo, what would need to be
> fixed to be able to include it in aisleriot is a) the card theme, as
> mentioned above, b) combining all the scheme files into one [unless the
> proposed game description data gets in first, then it can stay
> separate scheme files], and c) providing a help file in english.

	That's the kind of reason I wanted to have a separate directory for 
each game -- it would give people the option to have a variety of other kinds 
of files if they wanted.

	:)


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