Building & Testing Forum
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:51 am
A forum for the discussion of technical issues related to building and testing the URU source code.
These topics will probably be fairly technical. Subjects for discussion include such things as compilers and build tools, operating systems, networking, and other software needed to build URU. Also relevent are experiences in setting up environments for doing additional URU development, constructing tools such as libPlasma, PageEditor, and PyPRP.
Another important issue will be automatic testing of the URU client and server. We don't know yet if the URU source will include any test code, but even if it does not it will be useful to put together a set of sanity tests to detect gross faults that may be introduced by code changes or poorly executed builds. It would be good to get some discussion going on this topic.
These items are just as important as adding artistic or conceptual changes to the game -- they are a necessary step in getting URU up and running. I hope we can get our experienced software experts to contribute and make the process of transforming code to a working URU world to be as robust and error free as possible.
Thanks all.
These topics will probably be fairly technical. Subjects for discussion include such things as compilers and build tools, operating systems, networking, and other software needed to build URU. Also relevent are experiences in setting up environments for doing additional URU development, constructing tools such as libPlasma, PageEditor, and PyPRP.
Another important issue will be automatic testing of the URU client and server. We don't know yet if the URU source will include any test code, but even if it does not it will be useful to put together a set of sanity tests to detect gross faults that may be introduced by code changes or poorly executed builds. It would be good to get some discussion going on this topic.
These items are just as important as adding artistic or conceptual changes to the game -- they are a necessary step in getting URU up and running. I hope we can get our experienced software experts to contribute and make the process of transforming code to a working URU world to be as robust and error free as possible.
Thanks all.