Re: Source Compilation (more advice)

[Jason Reed <jreed@itis.com>]

>> Thanks to everyone for the advice and files... I got at least ToW and
>> Phutball (the only games worth playing :) sorta working now. I'm not really
>> intending to run this as a server (yet) but just trying to code, just for
>> fun, a couple games I designed...
>>
>> and of course, if anyone with a running server wants 'em, fine with me --
>> all the easier to find opponents :)
>
>  It occurs to me that some sort of cross-server challenge system might be
>neat.
>
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Hm. That'd be very interesting, though I'm not sure exactly how it would
work. Might you have some sort of protocol by which you could have a server
which would just be responsible for adjucating a particular game or games,
and a central server (like richard's) which would do all the admin, and
also run its own games?

This way, if you had a specific and easily implemented sort of protocol
between the big and small servers, maybe it'd be easier to write games from
scratch in, say, Perl, which I tend to prefer to C++.

But I suspect you're suggesting cross-bona-fide-server challenges, like
between richard's full-scale pbmserv and someone else's full-scale pbmserv.
Still not sure how that'd work either :)

---Jason