Une première version alpha

La version alpha1 vient d’être publiée, c’est une version de développement qui implémente la majeure partie des fonctionnalités annoncées, mais qui n’est pas fonctionnelle dans le sens où tous les anciens appels n’ont pas étés modifiés et que le jeu n’est pas utilisable en tant que tel.

Pour les développeurs, c’est l’occasion de découvrir la refonte. Les nouveaux développements sont intégralement orientés objet, la gestion des planètes et des ressources en sont de parfaits exemples.

Le code se trouve sur Github, sur le dépôt dédié au projet.

Un peu d’actu….

Pour donner quelques nouvelles à propos de l’état du développement de XNova:Legacies, je vous donne ci-dessous la liste des tâches avec la mise à jour de leur état de réalisation. J’y ai ajouté la refonte de la gestion de l’affichage des pages qui n’était pas présente. Je l’ai jugé nécessaire pour simplifier l’avancement et permettre de nettoyer le code “sale” à réécrire dans les versions à venir.
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This is it! XNova:Next-Gen is coming, its core module has been released as an alpha, which will enable new development approaches for XNova:Legacies (discussed here). This means that the architecture is frozen and further functionalities won’t be added since XNova:Legacies 2010-alpha0 won’t be released. Also, be aware that this is a developer release, there is no interface, and it should be considered as a high-level application framework on top of the Zend Framework, documentation will be availiable on the wiki.

Next to come, the user module, which will be the 2nd part of the XNova:Legacies 2010-alpha0 release.

You can now fetch the core module from the SVN trunk :
svn co svn+ssh://svn.xnova-ng.org/svnroot/xnlegacies/public/branches/modules/core/trunk

Or from the SVN tag :
svn co svn://svn.xnova-ng.org/svnroot/xnlegacies/public/branches/modules/core/tags/release-1.0-alpha0

Today I’m writing an entry for the the developers, an opportunity for me to introduce the new architecture for XNova:Legacies and explain its differences with what may have existed so far on the project. It is worth remembering that the biggest evolutions of the upcoming version comes from a brand new source code written in PHP 5.2, this version becomes though a dependency to make XNova:Legacies work on your system, but don’t worry, this PHP verison exists since 2006 and is therefore widely deployed on PHP hosting providers since a long time.

To return to what we are all here, everything has been redesigned to facilitate simple and rapid modification of the functionnalities of the game without the need of applying neither 1 line of the original source code. Everything is built upon the configuration, if a functionality in the base source code does not work like you wanted : replace it! it is as simple as that.

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Hi folks, it’s time to announce the coming of the new version 2010.1 of XNova:Legacies, which brings major changes in the sources : It includes parts of the Zend Framework 1.9.6.

This version will include an object-oriented data access API coming from XNova:Next-Gen, making the doquery() function deprecated – it will therefore be deleted little by little from the sources in future versions. As a matter of fact, multiple connections to the database can now be set up, using various database engines, this will be useful for a future migration from the deprecated ext/mysql database connector to either ext/pdo_mysql or ext/mysqli connectors.

Some other interesting changes for game administrators are the refactoring of the file “include/vars.php“, which will now be much more human-readable and the ability to easily display debug and deprecation messages.

For a long time, this version has been announced as the version 2009.3, some have made some remarks and as long as there are a lot of core changes, changing the main version number may be a good idea, then.

As like the 2009.1, there will be multiple releases before a “stable” version comes, a debug server will be launched very soon to launch some “Bug Hunt Days” and find more bugs, more bottlenecks to fix in early releases.