John Beisley

Awesome. I'm wondering if it might be acceptable to merge the branch back into master soon. There's still some changes that need to happen, but I think that the majority...

I'm thinking of using protobufs for this, but am open to ideas on this. Protobufs are good from my perspective as I don't know that we'll be using synchronous-style RPC...

Okay, I've merged that lot to master. Feel free to merge in the style checker changes :)

Sorry for the slow reply - have been away from Internet access for 3 days. Protobuf's primary format is binary, see: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html - but agreed - textual isn't good for...

That's fine, we can live with that for a bit longer :) On 26 May 2011 00:46, "nictuku" < [email protected]> wrote: > I spend some time today doing a small...

Tsk, sorry, misread your comment about the textual bit - thought you were recommending binary formats and generally got mixed up, many apologies (that's what happens when I get home...

A lot of these names should be fixable now that the refactor is over.

Yes, there's truth there in how much work there is. Textual protocols are less work to debug, but binary protocols are (at least, I believe) easier to write (with the...

Hadn't considered them that much, I must admit. I briefly played with netchan which uses them, although I think netchan might be a bit immature (at least - I ran...

It might be worth getting the server to send a packet after an illegal placement to tell the client that no items have been taken and the block which would...