Re: Is there anybody there?

["Rupert G. Goldie" <>]

> From: 

> > Crossfire has to be re-programmed to use a client-server approach if we want
> > to have an efficient and really distributed program.  I'm not sure that the
> > intermediate versions will be easy to maintain if several people are working
> > on the project.
> 
> I completely agree.  This is one thing that has stopped me from working on
> crossfire at all -- I think the design/protocol needs to be rethought.
> 
> X protocol IMO is not efficient enough for this game, it needs it's own.
> 
> --joe
> 

 While it would be nice to have a client-server with its own protocol, I don't
think it should be our primary concern right now. We have a client and server
that (pretty much) works and I don't think X is too inefficient for the job. 
I have run crossfire over a 9600bps serial link quite happily, so bandwidth 
isn't a big problem. My big problem with using X as a protocol is that there is 
no way that I'm allowing X through my firewall, but I would probably allow a 
Crossfire protocol through.
 I think a proper client-server interface is something we should be discussing
and designing now, but getting a stable release out is of much higher priority.


Rupert
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Rupert G. Goldie, Research Scientist                
Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute        
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