Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: Newly ordered levels

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hello Erich,

Erich Schubert wrote:
> > The challenging task is to handle the differences in the installation 
> > mechanisms of the operating systems.
>
> Leave Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Debian GNU/hurd and Ubuntu
> to me. ;-)
> [...]
> Yes, I'll happily take care of Debian and Ubuntu.

and we are happy that you do!

> Note that Enigma is already split in two for these - enigma and
> engima-common (which contains the platform independant stuff)
>
> Further splits could include e.g. different sound or graphics themes,
> too.

My concern is to keep the source repository in a way that you can split 
the distributions and updates for some operating systems like Linux and 
provide others with monolithic distributions and updates at the same time.

For a future network 2-player game option it will be essential that both 
players use compatible game engines and level versions.

> > An installation to the users HOME Enigma directory would be preferable.
>  
> Definitely, and the online updater comes in handy for these, too.
> Do levels already include version numbers to detect updates? Or maybe
> use some form of timestamping?

0.92 levels are plain Lua code. A level version number is included in 
the index.

For the next release I would like to introduce XML levels with 
appropriate versioning metadata included in the level itself.

The current experimental trunk version is capable of reading XML levels 
in the new format, contains 4 demo levels and the reference 
documentation quite close to the implementation. But the versioning 
itself is still subject of investigation.

best regards,

Ronald