Restructure update

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Nick

Same goes for anyone who can abide my brutal and autocratic management style.

I can vouch that Nick is where the Steve Jobs' soul went after he died.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by LostTemplar

How save files are working in current version ?
It refuses to save and I cannot fix it yet.

Not that bad, it works if I manually create ~/angband/Angaband/save
Seems like bug to me.

That's odd. Could that have been a permissions issue?

[Nick]

Originally Posted by takkaria

I can vouch that Nick is where the Steve Jobs' soul went after he died.

you'll pay for that

[LostTemplar]

That's odd. Could that have been a permissions issue?

Not likely, at first it simply was unable to save, then I did something and it started giving "cannot create /home/lt//.angband" message and quit, and then eventually it got magically fixed and now create required dirs if I delete them.

"cannot create" I can understand, but why it doesn't even try to create dirs at first.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by LostTemplar

Not likely, at first it simply was unable to save, then I did something and it started giving "cannot create /home/lt//.angband" message and quit, and then eventually it got magically fixed and now create required dirs if I delete them.

"cannot create" I can understand, but why it doesn't even try to create dirs at first.

I don't think "cannot create" is an angband error message - maybe something to do with configure options.

[LostTemplar]

Init.c line 215, message is from there.
Btw this function create_needed_dirs () is only called from main () if UNIX is defined, is it intended behaviour ?
Also it is called from main_crb, but nowhere else.

So it seems that it never create any dirs unless unix or OS X is used.

Also on unix it behave incorrectly if defines are incorrect, and I got this at first somehow (I cannot understand how autoconf works).

One more strange thing, it defines in autoconf.h a full path to angband, so it only can run from the same place, where it was compiled, IMHO not the best behaviour.

[debo]

You have to restructure your directories to play angband after the restructure. It's meta.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by LostTemplar

Init.c line 215, message is from there.
Btw this function create_needed_dirs () is only called from main () if UNIX is defined, is it intended behaviour ?
Also it is called from main_crb, but nowhere else.

So it seems that it never create any dirs unless unix or OS X is used.

Also on unix it behave incorrectly if defines are incorrect, and I got this at first somehow (I cannot understand how autoconf works).

One more strange thing, it defines in autoconf.h a full path to angband, so it only can run from the same place, where it was compiled, IMHO not the best behaviour.

So, a few things.

I think you have master branch; you probably want restruct.

UNIX is defined for everything except Windows.

The best way to build from the github source is

./autogen.sh
./configure (you may want options here like --with-no-install to run out of the source directory; --help gives an exhaustive list)
make

and if you are installing

make install (or maybe sudo make install)

[Nick]

Last Friday (or Saturday, or both, depending where you live) we had a devteam meeting; this seems a good time to do an update.

Main stuff since last update:

• Effect unification is complete
• A lot of duplicate spell code has been removed
• More work on the core-UI split.
• Terrain types have been drastically simplified, and door locks are now handled in the trap layer instead of the terrain layer
• Monster memory is now in a separate file in the user directory instead of in savefiles
• The monster movement and attack code has been reorganised and cleaned up
• Many of the game constants have been put in an edit file rather than being compiled in, so they are user alterable
• Edit file format has been standardised, and edit files made (hopefully) more readable
• Lots of other code simplification.

Looking forward, we are hoping to get the code to a playable state probably fairly early next year, and do some form of pre-release so that people can shoot holes in it all. Once we actually have a real release, I believe we should be able to do actual new stuff at a fairly rapid rate.

Thanks to everyone for your patience, and to everyone who is contributing to this process; also especial thanks to the devteam for at least trying to keep some sort of check on my insanity.

[AnonymousHero]

Just curious: Is it semi-playable, or is it too buggy/crashy for that ATM? (I don't mind starting new games if there are savefile compat changes or if the game eats a character.)