Apr 22
2009

Making scribbles not so occasional

Posted by .Squid in blog

.Squid
Scribbles were intended to be a sort of blog + news. But I have so little free time that it doesn't look like a blog at all because new messages appears two times per month :)
So I decided to write a new entry and tell you about what we are doing.
Well, at the beginning we decided to start using some version control software because a manual merging of versions which were modified by different developers is a HELL. Furthermore, a new hosting has automatical installation of SVN, and it would be a crime not to use it. But I remembered that I had heard about a new version control system (actually it's not so new, but it's definitely newer than SVN). So I decided to try it. Well, lack of experience in administrating UNIX-server leads to troubles in installation of web-applications. And even if everything looks good, it can be not so good in fact. What do I mean? Now we are using good old SVN :) I hope I will puzzle out problems with Bazaar, because according to reviews and comments it's really great (anyway it merges version better than SVN).
What's next.. Aha, documentation! We understand an absolute need of documentation, but who did think that it would be so hard to make it? We didn't even realise that Xors3d has more than 500 functions. Plus the same number of functions in [Phi]sics and about 70 functions in FastImage. Jeez! But we are working on documentation. At first time it will be online and then we're planning to make an additional offline one.
And in the end what you will see in new version. We implemented a joystick support (only basic functions without feedback - but it was agreed because joystick support was not planned in this version). Also you will see a new version of xScript. Knightmare did make a titanic work. He bound all Xors3d functions in xScript and now you can execute native xors3d functions just from the script. Well, it's always better to see by your own eye than read about it - you'll see the example.
Good luck! 
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