Final stretch
Yet more entities
The entity system overhaul is almost finished. Everything looks all right now, but doesn’t really behave… there must still be some bugs left in the physics system. I’ll concentrate on bug hunting and cleanup tomorrow, and hope to get to gameplay as well, next week if not tomorrow. It’s really nice to have some real progress for a change.
Architecture
As every programmer knows, or at least should know, program architecture is a hard subject. Really hard. A lot of my development time during the last couple of days has been spent thinking about the perfect architecture for parts of my entity system. I want to get this at least mostly right this time to avoid having to make huge, sweeping changes again in the future (like I’m doing now, but with a relatively small codebase). I feel I have succeeded quite well, with a couple of minor warts I’m going to remedy at some point in the future.
More issue tracking
Today, I wasted an hour or two trying to install Roundup. To my surprise, it got stuck trying to initialize the database, the same problem I had with Trac yesterday. Digging into the problem a bit deeper, it seems sqlite (or its Python bindings) is to blame! Specifically, it dies, claiming that the database is already locked. That means I might give Trac another chance if I get the sqlite problem sorted out, or maybe I should just try to use Roundup with another database backend. I gave up on issue tracking for now though, so more on that later.
I have a habit of making too many sweeping changes to code at once, and this is no exception. On the other hand, this does result in massive improvements to the entity system and especially creation of entity type files, so it’s all for the greater good.