Weekly development report 2021-10-02

Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source projects in the last week. This time the list is almost standard.

Steam Sky

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

Referring to my previous week post, yes, I'm blind. :) Some brave soul started playing the Drones faction and found a whole horde of problems. Now I'm slowly fixing them, still several are waiting. At least I will have something to report in the next week, too. :)

The development version is going slowly forward, this week spent mostly on the under-the-hood work, not too much visible changes:

• Bugs found in the stable version fixed here too.
• A few newly introduced, development exclusive bugs fixed either.
• Finished updating various lists in the game to use the setting for amount of items to show on one page.
• Standard, removed some problems reported by static analyzing tool. That again triggered a couple of big changes to the code.
• Some code cleanups, refactoring, etc.

And as standard ritual: because since the last development release has passed four weeks, it is time for another one. Around 24 hours after this post, a new version will be available for download.

TASHY2

Ada binding to Tcl/Tk, the new version of TASHY

The whole week spent on playing with gnatprove and fixing all the problems which it reported. It triggered a lot of breaking changes to the library API. Mostly related to the Tcl_Eval and Tcl_Get_Result bindings. At this moment the work is on removing Tcl_Exception from the library. All these things caused that the demo program completely not working for now. Unit tests for the library also require updates. A lot of fun. :)

From the smaller things, I've replaced Big_Integer with Long_Long_Integer in a few contracts. This mean that flag -gnatX is again not needed for the library compilation. Plus added simple wrapper functions for converting Ada Strings to C characters array. All these changes greatly reduced warnings from gnatprove about missing Global aspects. Not related to the sparkification process: a few bindings were fixed too.

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

A lot of work was done under-the-hood this week thus the list is very short today:

• Again, the main effort this week was on code cleanup, merging the graphical and console versions code.
• Standard, copy+pasted from the last weeks: some work with fixing problems reported by the AdaControl. Some things never changes. :)

YASS

Yet Another Static Site (generator) (written in Ada)

Copy and paste from the previous weeks (even not added s here this time :P): fixing the problems reported by AdaControl continues. Work on the package Server is slowly going to the end. We will see if it will be finished in the next week.

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