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He was the main engine coder.
He has contacts with exult team.

so...


Why doesn't he give you some combat engine code ?





ps:

from my point of view
(potential-exult-project-cooperator-but-still-lost-in-cvs):

undocumented opensource is not very usable.
undocumented daily-variable opensource is definitely useless


bye

He probably doesn't give out the code, because he doesn't own the rights to the code, Origin/EA does.

And as to the 'undocumented daily-variable opensource' being useless, I use a lot of open source programs, downloaded a compiled from the sourceforge cvs on a daily basis. Most of which have less documentation then exult has, gtk-gnutella for example, and I have no problems with them.

So perhaps it should have been phrased 'undocumented daily-variable opensource is definitely useless TO ME'? *grin*

Hmm... scratch that second bit, I'm splitting hairs between the context of 'from my point of view' and the general/specific nature of the statements. *grin* I'm being a bit overly pedantic I think.

My excuse is that I've had my head stuck in code all day. *grin*

* Darke disappears back to his code.

ok don't worry,

but i must specify that the 'useless' stuff
came from my CODER point of view,
not my USER's point

I currently download & compile & use without
problems many great openS stuff.

But i find VERY VERY difficult to touch some
parts of the code to solve my probs.
(without screwing it , ofcourse

bye

No programmers likes to write documentation

It would be a LOT of work to properly document a program the size of Exult. You might argue that it should have been done from the beginning... but look deep into your heart and give me an honest answer - would YOU have done it?

- Tele

You see documenting a project is the intention of every programmer, but for some reason, it just never happens.

-Colourless Dragon

And when it does happen (because one's boss orders it), the progam ends up changing so much that the documentation becomes worthless:-)

Damnit, I want documentation, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, and a data dictionary, for exult NOW! :p

-Dantec Dragon