TODO

MasterMind 1.1.1b


TODO
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1) I wish to separate CLEANLY the engine of the game from the interface.

Efforts to bring version 1.1 have made an almost complete restructuration of
the code, by adding .h files (originally everything was in a single .c file!),
each one of them tries to execute specialized tasks: masterm.c and masterm.h
try to be the engine, cursors.h and curstextlib.h try to be the cursors
interface (therefore bringing up the possibility to have another interface
too).

Maybe a good solution would be to have the engine as a separate process
expecting commands via a socket (or some other kind of IPC), and emitting
results in the same way. That way, the interface could be the program the user
calls, with any interface you choose (cursors, text mode, etc.), and this
interface program then exec()s the engine and communicates with it via the
commands & through the socket. I don't know, have to think about it a little
more for a while...


2) I haven't tested 1.1 for MS-DOS compatibility, and perhaps I won't, but if
there's someone willing to do that, and help me fix any problems, I will be
glad to receive the extra help. Since 1.1, I tried to abstract the behaviour
of the interface from the engine, so I changed the conio routines embedded in
the code to more general calls, in the effort to make curses the default
cursors library, so the changes might have broken something about the conio
library...


3) I have translated Master Mind to English, implementing a very basic
translation system in compilation time. Work needs to be done to refine this,
and maybe to add functionality so it works in real time. Currently, I am
trying to implement a localization support using gettext. It is an incomplete
implementation though.