Meeting:2009/09/20

This article contains a list of topics for as well as the results of the September developer IRC meeting.

Date

Sunday, 13th of September, 4:30PM GMT.

Thread at the forums: http://forums.fifengine.de/index.php?topic=299.0

List of topics

• Upcoming release:
  • Version scheme
• Light branch merge
• PathFinder:
  • Finish testing getPath functionality and merge to trunk
  • Create return linear path function: getLinearPath (per Zero / chewie request)
  • Start to think the solution for multilayer path finder
• Python coding standards
• C++ Tutorials
  • How to build fife for C++ (static vs. dynamic)
  • Project details and link to project hosting

Results

Release

Version scheme

• We will go for a 0.x.y[.z] version naming scheme
• We will release more often
• Feature freeze before 0.x.y releases
• Each 0.x.y release gets a new tag
• No backporting fixes are necassary until API is stable

Release date

• 0.3 will be released by octover
• The tasks in the 2009.1 milestone should be completed

Light branch merge

Vtchill will look over the changes and merge it to trunk

PathFinder

• Will not be ready for 0.3.0, but may be ready for 0.3.1

Python coding standards

• Removed "This article is currently only a proposal"
• A stickied thread should be created in the forums, so all developers can review the article

C++ Tutorials

Vtchill will continue to use static linking for now, and work on his fife-tutorials project.

Win32 SDK

We need more than one person to be able to create SDKs. We will create a guide for creating them. It (probably) is not necessary to copy the includes for each compiler. This will save around 90MB of disk space, and remove 13500 files.