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Stracciatella Ramblings[message #255781] Fri, 09 July 2010 15:49 Go to previous message
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Is Tron going to continue development of Stracciatella?

If not, is anyone else willing to pick-up the torch to carry-on Tron's work?
(I'm just curious).

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Are there plans for the introductory cinematic sequences for Jagged Alliance 2 to be played in Stracciatella?

If not... Why?

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I also read that you can't play the Jagged Alliance 2 music in Stracciatella. Is that true, and if so, why isn't it played by default?

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From what I've read thus far, it seems that Tron does not have administrator-access to the original website that hosted Stracciatella.
Do you think, if Tron (and maybe a few others) e-mail the administrators of said website asking them to redirect Tron's original URL to his current URL, they would do so?

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Although I understand that it isn't legally possible to create a proper all-in-one installation application for Windows (including data files), I was wondering if Stracciatella would gain more support if there was one that was amazingly straightforward, but didn't actually include the necessary data files?...

For example, could an installation application be created that would automagically create the install the files for Jagged Alliance 2: Stracciatella to the appropriate directory (allowing the user the option to specify a directory, have it ask the user where the necessary data files are located, have the user select the appropriate location (such as their install and/or play CDs), and then have it copy the data files from the user-specified source to the directory specified for Jagged Alliance 2: Stracciatella (or, at least automagically display a ReadMe.txt containing detailed instructions for the user on how to copy the files themselves)?

If so, I think that would be the best option for new users (while, existing users can simply be given a new JA2.exe with each new release). It could easily be explained as, "New users, download JA2Setup.exe and have your Jagged Alliance 2 CD(s) handy!"
Of course, this is just my two cents, and I do realise it may take quite a bit of time; I was just hoping...

This would be an awesome thing to have available for Windows (.exe), and a similar thing could be done for both Mac OS X (.dmg), and Ubuntu (.deb), if I'm not mistaken.
If Tron would be willing to do this/these, that'd be amazing, but I believe we all know that it would be extremely time-consuming, and prolly very annoying too, for just one person to do (especially when that same person is the one who does all of the coding), so I don't expect Tron to.

However, if several people still wanted one, and Tron would be willing to post it on the Website, I would be willing to create at-least a Windows installation application (I'd consider an Ubuntu one, but the requests for it would have to be many, because I don't currently have the knowledge to do so, and unfortunately don't have access to a Mac to create the Mac OS X one).

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Speaking of data files, exactly which files are required for Stracciatella (I'm actually asking for a list containing each file needed, because I believe I copied quite a few more than I needed to)? In fact, it might be easier to just tell me exactly what files I need to have, and where I need to have them (including the ones that Stracciatella provides).

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As a final note (and a possible found bug):
In the current release of Stracciatella civilians (at-least in the Rebel Hideout) are not visible for some reason...

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If anything, I'd love to set-up a Subversion to somewhat fork from the current revision in Tron's Subversion; people could add bugfixes, continue to add patches to make it able to be run on even more platforms than it already does (which is very impressive already), and continue Tron's work to make a stable platform for mod development.

Since Subversion tracks all changes, Tron could simply look at the code, fix anything deemed unclean/unstable code, and impliment it into his official project's Subversion/releases. The people that add code to the Subversion wouldn't need to post their changes on this Forum, and this there wouldn't be five threads here for the same issue, as it'd already be in the forked-Subversion, and Tron could simply take the fix from there (obviously, other people with issues would still post their issues in the Forum; I'm just saying the solution (if available) could be posted in the Subversion.

Since (from what I've read) it seems that Tron only occasionally comes here, looks at the bugs (and fixes), and then codes, it'd make things easier by allowing a one-stop-shop to just grab the code needed, and patch it all to his next revision.

The really kewl part is that, once Tron takes the code (and possibly cleans it up a bit before merging it into his own), we can then copy the new revision from his Subversion, and start fresh again.

It'd basically be like hosting an unstable Subversion branch of Stracciatella, and having Tron's official branch being the stable one.

It'd also (hopefully) mean Tron won't need to do as much work, and Stracciatella will be updated more frequently.

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