On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Brandon Bennett wrote:
>What is the current status of OLC?
CircleMUD doesn't have OLC. OasisOLC is fine though.
>Is it dead as Georege works on other projects?
Define dead.
Certainly I haven't made patches for it against the newest releases of
CircleMUD, but that shouldn't be a problem. I make patches and mark what
release it's intended to patch to. If you want to patch to a newer
release, you'll need to do it by hand, or take the old code, patch Oasis,
and then do the CircleMUD patches.
OasisOLC works pretty well for being such a large reorganization of the
code. There's a bunch of things in http://www.circlemud.org/~greerga/todo/
named like "oasis-#", where 1 <= # <= 12.
Of the things I need to fix, 2 are minor issues, and 1 is a crash bug.
The crash bug isn't a bug in Oasis itself but is due to a change to the
CircleMUD code to fix a different bug.
>Alot of the OLC 2.0 code looks to be incomplete and unorganized.
Pardon? The only thing I didn't do was documentation. The code is
organized such that you can write your own OLC interface if you don't like
the Oasis one. That doesn't mean the code is "done" because I know I have
things I want to change, but it's not incomplete.
>I would like to see mabey a team of people to work on Oasis and Obuild to
>put them together in harmony adding other patches as we go (aedit, hedit,
>etc)
One of the changes I mentioned above was to put the OBuild interface into
the Oasis code. It's not been a high priority though. I was going to add
aedit, hedit, etc. but it became too large of a fundamental change to the
CircleMUD code.
>Sorta like what OLC+ did for us but more complete and have a team to work
>on it. And mabey once we turn out this final project we could start to
>work on reworking the Circle Code into a new level and a new
>distrobution.
You're always free to send patches. Currently CircleMUD has a could
niggles left we need to fix (and documentation to write), but there isn't
anything critical that needs to be fixed *now*. Patchlevel 17 was the
reaction to a critical bug.
>So if you are interested in reworking twords a new OLC for circle e-mail me
>and we'll see if we can get a team of 4+ members and get a codin.
If you'd like to maintain OasisOLC, you're free to. I mentioned a long
time ago that I would most likely not be maintaining it past around 2.0. If
you would like to, I'll put the last bit of fixes into it that I need to
and then you can have it. That includes bug fixes and suggestions I've
received but not the OBuild interface.
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George Greer | Code from Erwin S. Andreasen (mudFTP, mcl)
greerga@circlemud.org | http://www.andreasen.org/
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