Re: GTetrinet

[Michael Goettsche <mail tuxipuxi de>]

On Friday 11 June 2004 21:50, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 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.
:-/
It's strange that a multiplayer game without decent documents can be that 
popular and work with different servers and clients.
>
> 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.
Sounds good. Looking forward to it. :-)
>
> 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.
That'd be great.
>
> 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.
No.. waiting for the lib is better than reading through the sources I 
think. :-)
>
> 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.
Great! Will keep an eye on the gtetrinet website.
>
> Jordi

Thanks for your kind reply!

Bye,
-- 
Michael Goettsche.
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