Patch

[pETe!]

Is it in view that the patch features will include in OpenTTD?
Or that the patch will able to work with openttd?
(Well i like hte first suggestion more)

[Prof. Frink]

Eventually, all the PatchFeatures will be incorporated into openTTD.
Could take some years to catch up though.

[Darkvater]

Eventually, all the PatchFeatures will be incorporated into openTTD.
Could take some years to catch up though.

Don't be so negative . I'm sure it will take less time.

[Prof. Frink]

Well, you'd still have to implement all the patch features, which is far from trivial. In fact, you'd be spending about 80% of the time I've so far spent on the patch, I think. Especially things like the new graphics support are going to be a lot of work.

[Bjarni]

80% sounds like A LOT to me. For some years, the patch was made by one person. openTTD is opensource and sourceforge says 8 people are working on it. Also C is easier to get an overview on than asm and the classes and variables have meaningfull names.
So far the patch took 8 years (I think). Just think how far openTTD will be in one.

Note: I'm not saying it will have all features in one year, but 80% of 8 years is approx. 6 years. That sounds like A LOT

[Vurlix]

My optimistic view tends to suggest most of the TTDPatch features will be available in openttd within 3 months.

[spaceman-spiff]

Then first get that damned thing working on my pc, until then the patch is and will stay my only friend

And don't get off-topic here, my complaints are in the open ttd section

[Vurlix]

spaceman-spiff: if you'd like, join #openttd on irc.freenode.net and we might be able to troubleshoot your problem.

[CobraA1]

I'm more optimistic - after all, we're not working in ASM land anymore, we're not doing any reverse engineering (this in itself probably accounts for most of the time spent on the patch), and we have a lot more developers. I think a matter of months is perfectly reasonable.