When a master game is defined, the racks and moves played from the
current game will be the same as in the master game. This can be
practical to replay a game in a different mode, or to replay at home a
duplicate game played in a club, for example.
The arbitrator has to specify them manually. Otherwise, we cannot know
when a turn is complete and thus we cannot determine if solos can/should
be applied.
It is mostly working, but many things are still missing.
In particular:
- ability to enter (or change) moves for a past turn
- ability to change the rack (manually, or randomly)
- ability to add/remove players during the game
- support for solos, warnings, penalties
- support for table number
- more ergonomic interface
- non regression tests
- ... and probably bugs to fix
Internally, commands are now stored a bit differently: some commands
which were at the end of a turn (like the players rack in duplicate
mode) are now at the beginning. But from a user point of view, there is
no visible difference, except some details in training mode (and the new
behaviour is arguably better :)).
Only (known) problem: after loading a game saved before this commit,
navigating in the game history may be less nice (in particular, racks
may not be fully restored).
Status:
It works well, but there are still a few details to improve/fix
More details about the changes:
- New dependency on Arabica and Libxml2 to parse the XML
- Loading the old format is still supported for this release, but won't be supported anymore in the next one
- Games are now only saved in the new format
- In training mode, the player is now created externally, like in the other modes
- Avoid using GameIO (the one from game/) whenever possible
- Do not use a FILE* argument anymore when loading a game
- Throw and catch exceptions correctly when a game cannot be loaded or saved
- The non-regression tests now use a new method to print the game history
