Re: growth agendas and OO

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

Ooops, forgot one agenda item that I've been mulling the last 
couple of months:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Eric McDonald wrote:

> I have a personal growth agenda for Xconq. It goes something like 
> this:
>   Pre-7.5:
>     (1) Fix all known stability issues and crashing bugs.
>     (2) Verify documentation correctness and add more exposition 
> where necessary. Possibly spiff up the HTML version of the 
> manuals.
>     (3) Make sure that all the test cases pass muster. Possibly 
> enhance the testing system. (Although the normal use of skelconq 
> is to be invoked with arguments, it should probably not assume 
> that this is the case, as you pointed out and as I also noticed 
> some time ago.)
>   Post-7.5/Pre-7.6:
>     (1) Make a badass AI.
>     (2) Do some work with the tasking/planning system (related to 
> AI work, but some make-user-life-easier things also).
>     (3) Possibly extend GDL.
>     (4) Possibly extend the standing orders syntax.
>     (5) Possibly work on SDL/? interface.
     (6) Possibly modularize the combat system, and then recast 
models 0 and 1 in terms of the modular system by setting the 
appropriate combat behavior flags.

Eric