Hello!

[Nate-Devv]

• Name: Nathan "Nate-Devv" Moore
• Social: Github: Nate-Devv
• From: United States (PT/UTC-7/8)
• Skills / Tools: Python, Spanish, Japanese, and little bits of Blender, C++, Java, and Lua
• Found via: Mintest Forums
• Interests: Expanding my skillsets and contributing to libre software
• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7 64 bit.
• IDE: Eclipse 3.8.0, Java 7.
• Extra: None

 

[Cervator]

Welcome! Nice to see you in the forum

You know Japanese? That's one language and keyboard layout (if unique) we haven't encountered much yet! Could be fun to support sometime

 

[Nate-Devv]

In truth, I am really just learning both Spanish and Japanese. Support would be really fun to implement down the line. I can't start work on anything that would require me to run java 7 yet, due to the lack of operating system support (building the JDK is way too much of a pain). Once I can do that tests can happen on the game and I can afford to make major changes that need to be tested. So glad to have found this and can't wait to see where it goes!

 

[Nate-Devv]

New idea! A python (or other language) script (sort of like a preprocesor) that you define values for, such as:

java=7

In the code, there could be blocks such as:

#if java >= 7 ... #endif

that coule be parsed, editing the code to comply with a certan version of java. That way, we could have optimizations for newer versions of java (think 8 or 9), but still have old code options availible to those who have an older version (could work for anything). I am a student, but in my free time I could work on this before I have the oportunity to work on the code with java 7 support only.

 

[Mike Kienenberger]

I can't start work on anything that would require me to run java 7 yet, due to the lack of operating system support (building the JDK is way too much of a pain).

You shouldn't have to build java 7 on linux.

You should be able to install openjdk 7 as part of your package management system. Or you can download Oracle's java directly as an archive and unpack it wherever you like (I just did this earlier this week because I still need Oracle java 1.6 installed for a work project, and the normal 1.7 install removes it).

 

[Cervator]

Oho, a rarer OS combo? Potential for both great challenges and great disasters!

Generally I think we want to stay away from injecting any complexity to support something like Java 6 - in particular because we don't control our dependencies so if just one requires Java 7 no amount of conditional code will save us

Try out the suggestions from Mike Kienenberger and see if you can't just sort out Java 7, then focus on more fun stuff like translation frameworks

 

[Nate-Devv]

Ok, I think I understand. I am going to see what trouble I can get into mixing Gnewsense Parkes and Debian Wheezy while I wait for the Gnewsense team to release GNS 4. Gnewsense 3 is based on Squeeze, so OpenJDK 7 is not in the repos. I won't use Oracle J7 because that defeats the whole purpose of GNS. Can't wait to see how it all turns out!

 

[Nate-Devv]

Cool! I think openjdk 7 will work now. Probably can't work on it during the week, but I can definately start major, fun things on Friday. I can not wait to start working on the project.

P.S. From what I've seen so far, the graphics are amazing. Pre-Alpha no less! You have all done a fine job on the project!

 

[Skaldarnar]

Hey Nate-Devv, are you interested to be part of GSoC 2014 by chance?

When I first read that you've got some experience in Python I had to think of the Organic Growth Simulator which is written in Python and needs a Java port

It is part of our GSoC Proposals with attached GitHub Issue #218, Forum Thread and external description. So just enough background information to get started Furthermore, sample code is available at GitHub repo cfkurtz/TerasologyTrees.

 

[Nate-Devv]

As much as I'd love to (sounds really cool), I fail to be old enough for the GSoC . However, it is certainly something to consider working on. I can, however, look into it on my off time and see what I come up with.