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Jason McIntosh | 1 Apr 02:41
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Frivolity now on CPAN

My Perl volity packages are now on CPAN.

First of all, this means that lovely HTML docs are now available.

Full collection: http://search.cpan.org/~jmac/Frivolity-0.6.0/
Start page: http://search.cpan.org/~jmac/Frivolity-0.6.0/lib/Volity.pm

Secondly, installing them just became a little easier. (I'd say "a lot
easier" but it's actually been easier since I switched my distribution
style to include a CPAN-aware auto-installer.)

I highly recommend that you use the CPAN module's interactive mode, as
detailed here:

Once you have that going, type "install Volity". Cool, eh?

There is a little cleanup to do on my end -- some of the
prerequisites, such as Tie::Exechash, are no longer necessary. I'll
just silently upload these housekeeping-level changes as I make them.

As always, contact me if you have any problems or questions.

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Jason McIntosh | 1 Apr 03:42
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Re: Frivolity now on CPAN

On 3/31/06, Jason McIntosh <zendonut <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I highly recommend that you use the CPAN module's interactive mode, as
> detailed here:

Ahem. As detailed HERE:
http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.87/lib/CPAN.pm#Interactive_Mode

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Javier Diaz-Reinoso | 7 Apr 22:50
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problems building bookkeeper

I have a friend who wants to create a site to play some local card  
game (in Ecuador), searching the web I find your site, and I think  
you have the right approach.

I decided to test your software in my machine, so I installed  the  
Widfire Jabber server, download your software via svn, update my Perl  
installation using DarwinPorts and cpan, and build the server-perl  
and server-python, now I want to build the bookkeeper, but I have  
some problems.

First in bookkeeper.pl say the info about the db is in  
mysql_tables.sql, but I don't have that file, second when I run 'perl  
Build.PL' I obtain this warning:

> javier-diaz-r-g5:/Tools/Proyectos/games/volity-svn/volity/trunk/ 
> bookkeeper-perl cat$ perl Build.PL
> Checking whether your kit is complete...
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>         META.yml
>         t/pod-coverage.t
>         t/pod-spelling.t
>         t/pod-test.t
> Please inform the author.
> Deleting Build
> Removed previous script 'Build'
> Creating new 'Build' script for 'Volity-Bookkeeper' version '0.5.3'
> javier-diaz-r-g5:/Tools/Proyectos/games/volity-svn/volity/trunk/ 
> bookkeeper-perl cat$

then when I run ./Build (or sudo ./Build) I was expecting to obtain
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Jason McIntosh | 7 Apr 23:33
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Re: problems building bookkeeper

On 4/7/06, Javier Diaz-Reinoso <javier_diaz_r <at> mac.com> wrote:
> I have a friend who wants to create a site to play some local card
> game (in Ecuador), searching the web I find your site, and I think
> you have the right approach.

Glad to hear it!

> First in bookkeeper.pl say the info about the db is in
> mysql_tables.sql, but I don't have that file,

Are you sure? It should be in a directly called "sql" within the
bookkeeper-perl directory you got through svn.

I last updated it only a couple of days ago, so if you performed your
checkout prior to that, you may wish to do an update.

> second when I run 'perl
> Build.PL' I obtain this warning:
>
> > javier-diaz-r-g5:/Tools/Proyectos/games/volity-svn/volity/trunk/
> > bookkeeper-perl cat$ perl Build.PL
> > Checking whether your kit is complete...
> > Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
> >         META.yml
> >         t/pod-coverage.t
> >         t/pod-spelling.t
> >         t/pod-test.t
> > Please inform the author.

Ah... I can fix these, thanks.
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Javier Diaz-Reinoso | 8 Apr 20:04
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Re: problems building bookkeeper

On 07/04/2006, at 16:33, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> On 4/7/06, Javier Diaz-Reinoso <javier_diaz_r <at> mac.com> wrote:
>> I have a friend who wants to create a site to play some local card
>> game (in Ecuador), searching the web I find your site, and I think
>> you have the right approach.
>
> Glad to hear it!
>
>> First in bookkeeper.pl say the info about the db is in
>> mysql_tables.sql, but I don't have that file,
>
> Are you sure? It should be in a directly called "sql" within the
> bookkeeper-perl directory you got through svn.
>
> I last updated it only a couple of days ago, so if you performed your
> checkout prior to that, you may wish to do an update.

OK, now I have the sql directory.

>
>> second when I run 'perl
>> Build.PL' I obtain this warning:
>>
>>> javier-diaz-r-g5:/Tools/Proyectos/games/volity-svn/volity/trunk/
>>> bookkeeper-perl cat$ perl Build.PL
>>> Checking whether your kit is complete...
>>> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>>>         META.yml
>>>         t/pod-coverage.t
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Phil Bordelon | 9 Apr 22:29

Hex and Y Implemented

Hello there, everyone.

I've implemented versions of both Hex:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)

and Y:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_(game)

for Volity.  They use the Python server/referee code for the
backend, and (of course) SVG + ES for the frontend.  A lot of
code is shared between the two, because the games are fairly
similar.

I've also made all the code I've written available in a SVN
repository.  As I don't have access to Le Official SVN Repo,
it's in one that resides on my home computer.  So don't be
surprised if it's a twee bit slow, down at random times, etc. :)

The URI is:

    svn://hudson.thenexusproject.org/volity-phil

You would check it out via:

    svn co svn://hudson.thenexusproject.org/volity-phil volity-phil

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Doug Orleans | 10 Apr 18:27
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Re: Hex and Y Implemented

Cool!  If you're looking for players, you might want to advertise on
the abstractgames Yahoo Group.  I thought there was also a group
specifically for connection games, but I can't seem to find it.  There
is a group for Unlur, though (one specific connection game).

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Phil Bordelon | 10 Apr 19:36

Re: Hex and Y Implemented

Doug Orleans wrote:
> Cool!  If you're looking for players, you might want to advertise on
> the abstractgames Yahoo Group.  I thought there was also a group
> specifically for connection games, but I can't seem to find it.  There
> is a group for Unlur, though (one specific connection game).

I'm not entirely sure I'm ready to advertise it in the "free and clear,"
especially since the servers are still running off of my desktop at home
and therefore are prone to, uh, difficulties when we have a brownout (which
is, alas, more common than I'd like.)  If I do, though, I'll do it to the
abstractgames list (of which I'm a member) and probably the pbmserv-users
list as well.

Thanks for the suggestion. :)

> --Doug

As I told jmac yesterday, I'm also willing to give what guidance I can to
aspiring developers.  The games I did weren't particularly complex on either
the UI side or the server side, but I'll help with what I can.

P

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Jason McIntosh | 12 Apr 21:24
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Windows installer knowledge needed

(Preface: We have renamed Javolin to Gamut, and this is official with
the release (0.3.2) that I made yesterday. Rationale here:
http://prog.livejournal.com/569415.html)

It's high time to make a single Windows installer for Gamut. I have
been avoiding this for a while because, to be honest, none of us here
at the office are Windows experts; we're all Mac hackers and Linux
fans. So up through today Windows users have had to choose between two
Gamut (neé Javolin) packages to download, depending upon whether or
not they had Java installed on their system. One is an .exe sitting by
itself, and one is an .exe next to a JRE folder. Dumb as that.

I very much want to drop this strategy in favor of a one-download-fits
all one, where the user gets an installer that determines how
Java-happy the computer is, and acts accordingly.

So. Any of y'all consider yourselves comfortable enough around
Windows-installation-land to give us a hand with figuring out how we
should do this? I'm about to go wading into trying to figure out how
this works, but would very much appreciate any guidance or advice.

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Jason McIntosh | 17 Apr 02:13
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Frivolity 0.6.2 release

Just uploaded Frivolity 0.6.2 to volity.org and to CPAN (where it make
take another day or two to percolate out to your favorite mirrors). It
does a bit of cruft cleanup and also fixes a nasty bug that would
sometimes crash parlors after their internal Volity::Game objects were
destroyed. It should be a simple upgrade, and I recommend it to all
Perl-based Volity hackers.

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