Weekly development report 2023-05-13

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)

The stable version of the game seems stable. No bugs reported or found. Suspicious as usual. ;)

The development version of the game as usual goes forward. I have probably too much fun with breaking the game, GitHub shows that I passed the amount of 20k commits to the code. Time flies. I'm not sure do I should celebrate it or worry about it. ;) Anyway, in this week, only a couple of changes visible for players:

• Added ability to cancel workshop order in the module info dialog.
• Added ability to assign crew members to medical rooms in the module info dialog.
• Again, some code moved to Nim. Not too much but always some progress. ;)
• And the old code got some cleanup either.

And because the last development version was released almost 4 weeks ago, time for the new. In around 24 since this post, it will be available for download. Many new bugs to test. ;)

Nimalyzer

The static code analyzer for Nim programming language

Adding big things requires a lot of changes in the code. Just checking if you don't sleep. :) The whole week focused on adding a new type of rules to the program. This triggered a lot of changes to the existing code, literally a cascade of them:

• As mentioned above, the work on fix type of rules slowly goes forward. Currently the skeleton of the code is implemented in the program, it need checks if the conception works.
• The work on the new type of rules triggered the redesign of setRule procedure. It was changed into template plus showing the messages about a rule's result now are more generic.
• And this one triggered changes in the program's rules code. :) Not only all of them required upgrade to the new version of setRule procedure. Also, rules messages for found and not found problems are moved to constants and set in rules' configuration, instead somewhere in the code.
• Another part of the cascade: all these changes caused that some parts of code are no longer needed, so they were removed.
• First breaking change in this version: the hasDoc rule stopped checking fields of types for documentation. I think it is not necessary, the documentation looks better if written outside, with documentation of the whole type.
• Speaking of which, the documentation of objects was updated to the new style, mentioned above.
• Fixed the documentation formatting for namingConv rule. Also updated the project's documentation.

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