From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julian Graham Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: [ANN] gzochi project development release 0.7 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:41 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408766459 3676 80.91.229.3 (23 Aug 2014 04:00:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:00:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Guile Users Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 23 06:00:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XL2VZ-0000ol-Ff for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 06:00:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XL2VY-0002gi-BE for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XL2VQ-0002gX-07 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XL2VP-0007jE-0w for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c]:49346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XL2VO-0007j9-Ou for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id eu11so17762489pac.17 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:00:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MdUbzm236bkFcP5J1OpHOVZ0qWj0rcPz9VcJr1eHfTI=; b=jmI5pPtrbjP8ejpHtE0+4vrgVqz91/NMuBFESx7rxJo1aXgL+CKB9tIxUgMkCA7MCZ R1G0rMiStTmDZuzc5e12XYoR+BvvnDQPIk05hPuSqUB1xvt08xpZ7M9sV2mlc6DJKim5 vXog+/3v6WbtEW7FXmoAVtK2BGjtW/Eo83B+vFHWovtbt/MP6C/jERuuI/hHGzJOKBSd SMI5VM20anndXsOwQM9CeoFol0jr2jgCfa1tS73PSCU5obzoA2D6ij4RhXJHfLb20TWv KjbVfcB3PPWxW90emO8rjHCH7YiREyH1Xi/a5yRCMaeK6yi4aghBXk5d4RvTEMHQQ6lJ EZTg== X-Received: by 10.68.57.232 with SMTP id l8mr2462622pbq.79.1408766441577; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.70.38.129 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:00:41 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11437 Archived-At: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce the seventh development release of the gzochi game development framework. The project description, from Savannah: gzochi (/zo=CA=8A-t=CA=83i=CB=90/) = is a framework for developing massively multiplayer online games. A server container provides services to deployed games, which are written in Guile Scheme, that abstract and simplify some of the most challenging and error-prone aspects of online game development: Concurrency, data persistence, and network communications. A very thin client library can be embedded to provide connectivity for client applications written in any language. gzochi can be viewed as an application server (plus clients) for Guile applications that have special kinds of workloads -- quick, CPU-bound tasks that require transactional guarantees around sending messages and accessing data. In addition to resolving some serious bugs in the server and reference client implementations, this release includes several new features: * New data management tools for portably exporting, importing, and migrating the schema of gzochi game application databases * Finally: A reference client implementation written in Guile Scheme! * Configurable and more robust handling of server configuration files; the location of gzochid.conf can now be specified via command-line arguments * ...and more! See the NEWS files in the distribution for details This is a development release; the framework is largely feature-complete but likely not bug-free, and this release includes a couple of potentially breaking changes for game application code. Nonetheless, there's extensive server and client documentation, and the distribution includes two example games with heavily-annotated source code. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.nongnu.org/gzochi/ or check out the project page on Savannah, at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gzochi/ -- you can pick up the release from the downloads section. Regards, Julian