On Dec 23, 9:22 am, Kent Paul Dolan
well.com> wrote:> Patric Mueller wrote:
>
>> On
sourceforge.net there are several projects
>> registered that attempt a NetHack rewrite.
>
>> One in Python[1], one in Objective-C[2], two in
>> Java[3][4] and one which "only" wants to enhance
>> and restructure the current code base[5].
>
> Sadly there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to
> determine when a project was registered with
> SourceForge, so there's no way to guess how fast
> the projects are moving that are still moving at
> all but here's a bit more of what detail is
> visible for each project:
>
> It's not too cheerful news for the Java supporters
> here that both the Java projects are defunct. The
> other three at least don't say they are defunct, and
> the one in C is the most advanced.
If you browse the source you can get an idea for how active the
project is.
[1] is pretty recent (last checkin, 10 months ago), but there hadn't
been many checkins before that.
I ignored [2] because Objective-C is really Mac-only.
[3] has some source, maybe it was run through a C->Java converter, but
it's definitely defunct (and the development probably predates
3.4.3
anyways).
[4] has no code at all.
[5] has had only one big checkin (17 months ago). Maybe there has
been a lot of development on it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Merry Christmas,
John
