Weekly development report 2023-07-08

Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source projects in the last week.

Steam Sky

Roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme (written in Ada)

Welcome to the last development report for the stable 8.0 series of the game. As by most time, no changes in the code here. I have a feeling that the next big version will have a lot more bug fixing releases available. ;) As the last development version will arrive soon, the next four weeks again will be focused only on the preparation for the new major release.

And the development version itself. Some visible changes are again arrived here, but I started to test the game for bugs. Of course, they are here. ;) Some of them are squashed, but I think there are still a lot more to find:

As one of the players suggested, added the ability to remember the messages' window's size on the map. Now, when switching the game's view and returning to the map, the game should remember the size.
Redesigned the dialog for setting boarding and defending parties in the combat. Same as with setting crew members' orders in the ship's info screen, it now has the confirmation button before the order is changed. This was done mostly for consistency of interface, but should also prevent a large morale loss when the player can't decide about who should be assigned to the party.
Fixed saving the information about what type of upgrade is make for the selected module in the player's ship.
Fixed crashing the game during undocking from bases.
Again, a lot of code moved to Nim. Now all the game's data related code, like reading them from files, is in the new place.
And the old code got some cleanups. The standard footer. :)

As mentioned above, it is again the time for next, the last development release of the 9.0 series of the game. In around 24 hours since this post, it will be available to download. And then the "boring reading" month will start. No new features will be added, only bug fixes (probably a lot) and code cleanups.

Nimalyzer

The static code analyzer for Nim programming language

The work steadily goes toward a new, still pre-alpha release. The work on the rule ifStatements is finished for now and another rule arrived in the program. Plus the new rules are applied to the project itself, which caused a lot of style fixes in the week. ;)

As mentioned above, the work on the rule ifStatement is done for now. The test for the rule added, its documentation is mostly finished. Some small changes to the documentation probably will be made in the next week.
The project's documentation now have the section about the structure of the program's rules' code. It is mostly useful for people, who wants to add new rules to the program or edit existing ones. In the section there are information about variables, procedures, macros and templates used in creating the rules.
Updated the code to work with Nim 1.6.14. It means mostly changes to the GitHub workflow file.
Fixed some typos and grammar issues in the project's documentation.
And the program's new rule arrived: forStatements. As the name suggest, it checks the for statements in the code. At the moment only if the statements have or don't have direct call to pairs or items iterators. It can also add or remove these calls from the checked code. Most of the work is done here (again), but there is still something to do, like documentation and unit test for the rule. Almost déjà vu. :)
The program's code updated to the new rules. Many for loops are changed to have consistency in the coding style.

Wine cellar

A graphical user interface for managing Windows programs on FreeBSD

The work on installing a new Windows application resumed. Now the code related to install a Wine version from Wine-Freesbie project is almost finished. The "only" this to do is to test it. ;) It should be done in the next week.