Hi Michael, On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:07:05PM +0200, Michael Goettsche wrote: > Hi there, > > first of all I'd like to say thanks for such a beautiful tetrinet client, it's > giving me many hours of fun. :-) :) > GTetrinet is the only tetrinet client for Linux and I think a tetrinet client > for the KDE project is definitely missing, so I thought about starting to > develop one. > > My searches for tetrinet "standards", the interaction between server and > client and such things haven't been successfull and it's confusing me a > little bit. > > I thought you are probably the person of choice to ask for links to tetrinet > standards since you have written gtetrinet. > > It would be great if you could point me to some helpful ressources. First of all, credit where it's due. GTetrinet has been written mainly by Ka-shu Wong and Daniel Carbonell, with help from others. Secondly, you're not the first person with the intention to write a client for KDE. I don't remember who, but there's obviously people wanting to do that for a while. I guess if it never happened it's because of the lack of docs for the protocol, yeah. Dani has been working on splitting the client code from the GNOME GUI for a while, and while it's not finished, it shouldn't be long before a test release is ready. I would recommend you to wait for Dani to release libtetrinet 0.1 and you start building KTetrinet (or whatever) around it, as you'll be able to forget about the protocol entirely. If you're not interested in using libtetrinet, I'm afraid the best documentation for the protocol is reading gtetrinet's code. There's no good docs out there that I know. Dani has promised (hi dani, feel the pressure?) to look at finishing up the first public version of libtetrinet in July. As soon as there's a release out, I'll package it for Debian, if that helps at all. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi sindominio net jordi debian org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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