[DGD]Patches

[James Bearden]

I got it, thanks dude. Its no surprise that i'm not a big programmer, I 
understand the basics and I know enough linux to survive. I'm a mechanics 
designer, combat, economy etc. Once the driver/patches and lib (melville I 
guess) installed we're going to undertake the rest of the project, which 
includes an ASCII based Wilderness system, resource system, dynamic mining 
system, dynamic player run guild system (players name, pick 3 tag skills 
etc), classless training system (guilds only enhance training, wandering 
sages, and the ability to learn from other players), and a dynamic player 
city creation system (Gov type, imperialism, etc, ministries), *pant* 
complete with ascII 'wall and building' such as doors, walls, gates etc 
which will be destroyable/rebuildable.
Trying to achieve a mass warfare type of game, with strong RP and good game 
mechanics which has something for everyone to enjoy from the limb/skill 
based/crit based combat system with intergrated abilities to the craftsman 
system (all objects are created by players and customizeable) and economic 
system. I've designed a new way to control Mob population, they no longer 
rely on their rooms, and the population never dips, it shifts and simulates 
birth. I'm going to attemp to make the world 3d, as in an x, y, z, 
coordinates so that a player may build multiple floor structures, as well as 
intergrate it into the mining system (complete with cave ins and timbers to 
hold up the shaft room type)
So, what i'm getting at is I have a few programmers interested, plenty of 
space and bandwidth, but none of them are too familiar with DGD, they are 
more inclined to MudOS. I'm looking for someone who might like to do this 
type of project with me, maintain the driver so to speak and help program 5 
years of planning.

>From: "Jason Cone" <jcone at uscdev.com>
>Reply-To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
>To: <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
>Subject: Re: [DGD]Patches
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:28:34 -0500
>
>Ok, I think I see your real question. ;)  Sorry about the confusion.  I
>think you need to understand the patch file format a bit better so as to be
>able to manually apply them.  Here goes:
>
>
>*** 289,299 ****
>         /*
>          * insert CR before LF
>          */
>         *q++ = LF;
>         size++;
>!   } else if ((*p & 0x7f) < ' ' && *p != HT && *p != BEL && *p != BS) {
>         /*
>          * illegal character
>          */
>         p++;
>         --len;
>--- 289,299 ----
>         /*
>          * insert CR before LF
>          */
>         *q++ = CR;
>         size++;
>!   } else if ((*p & 0x7f) < ' ' && *p != HT && *p != BEL && *p != BS && *p
>!= ESC) {
>         /*
>          * illegal character
>          */
>         p++;
>         --len;
>
>
>Ok, so what we have here is the patch file for comm.c.  Each "change entry"
>in a patch file consists of two sections:  one section tells the patch
>program (or you, in this case) what section of code to look for and the
>other section denotes what changes should take place in said section.
>
>The first section of a "change entry" starts with the '***' and is followed
>by the line numbers in the source file at which the 'patch' program should
>start looking for the following code.
>
>The second section of a "change entry" starts with the '---' followed and 
>is
>followed by the line numbers that will correspond to the updated source
>changes.
>
>When the 'patch' program finds the code defined in the first section, it'll
>then take those lines that are marked with '+' (add those lines), '-'
>(remove those lines), or '!' (change those lines with the same line in the
>second section) and perform the necessary operations.
>
>So, in plain English, the above diff file would do the following:
>
>1) Ok, in comm.c, go find the section of code that matches what's in the
>first section.  Start looking around line 289, but devitate a little bit if
>you have to (the amount of deviation can be customized via a parameter to
>the 'patch' program).
>
>2) Once you find the block of source code, change the line:
>
>        } else if ((*p & 0x7f) < ' ' && *p != HT && *p != BEL && *p != BS) 
>{
>
>to:
>
>        } else if ((*p & 0x7f) < ' ' && *p != HT && *p != BEL && *p != BS 
>&&
>*p
>        != ESC) {
>
>3) You're done.
>
>Does that answer your question/clear the confusion?
>
>JC
>
>
>
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