Crossfire Forum

Thanks for the refinement of what is going into the trunk vs the 1.x branch. I'm what you might call a pathological beta tester... That is, I tend to use the bleeding edge of whatever software I can get. I'm writing from a box that does semi-automated dist-upgrades of Ubuntu Feisty daily.

Now that ...

I'm a hack in half a dozen languages; and, I really do NOT want to learn another one just to script a game. If scripting were in Python, great, Lua, no.

I tend to agree with the previous post. I've never been the slightest bit tempted to play a half-orc, halfling, gnome, or northman because they seem, well, boring and stinky. I'm playing a fantasy game and I'd prefer to either be myself - human - or to be bigger, stronger or more dangerous.

My ...

I have been running the CVS and now the SVN versions of crossfire for a while now; and, I have not had build problems before. I just checked out 5117 and the client builds find. The server, however, does not. This is the error I get:

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make collect
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/justin/src ...

Any text entered by keyboard or by paste from another application is doubled. I.e. typing the <a> key results in "aa" in the text entry box. Pasting "say hello" from gedit results in "say hellosay hello" in the text entry box. The backspace key and the delete key remove 2 characters at a time ...