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Thanks, @tajmone, this is an excellent idea. Please go ahead! And I'm also pleased to see that we are starting to get some gravitation and organisation of materials, and thankful for your part in it! |
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DONE! |
Added StdLib v1.00It basically took me the whole weekend to polish the original sources to meet our new code styles conventions, but it was well worth the effort! So now the Alan Goodies project proudly hosts a copy of @AnssiR66's ALAN StdLib v1.00: https://github.com/alan-if/alan-goodies/tree/master/libs/ALAN-Stdandard-Library_1.00/ It's yet another step toward preserving the ALAN legacy, and ensuring that today's users will always be able to compile old adventures through an official channel were they can download the required libraries — which we'll be testing in the course of time to ensure that they will always compile with the latest Beta SDK, and tweak them as required if the need be. At some point in the future, I'd like to also add copies of the latest libraries used for ALAN v1 and v2 (the latter shouldn't be hard to get hold of; whereas I don't even know if there actually was a library for ALAN 1). |
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Nice! I think there never was even an Alan v1 that's worth mentioning. IIRC Göran and me toyed around a lot in the beginning and v2 is the start of something that was stable enough to allow others to use. But there is a |
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@thoni56, I've now added to the ALAN Wiki a page dedicated to the history of the various ALAN libraries:
https://github.com/alan-if/alan/wiki/Alan-Libraries
this will allow me to remove similar pages from other repositories (e.g. alan-i18n and alan-goodies) and avoid redundant contents by simply linking to the new dedicate page, which will be always up to date.
I was thinking that the Alan Goodies repositories should really be moved to the ALAN-IF organization (currently it's still under my accounts). Originally, it was a sort of container were I would park various assets related to ALAN, but since I've added to it the restored Lib v0.6.2 it's become the official reference for that library version (since it fixes a couple of bugs, and documents in depth its history and were it was taken from).
Ideally, the Alan Goodies repository could function as an archive for legacy ALAN assets, e.g. we could add to it also a copy of the ALAN Library 1, which is currently available on ALAN website. I could polish the source code, enforce code styles consistency, add a markdown README and convert to markdown the original plaintext documents.
In other words, the Alan Goodies repo could become the official storage for legacy stuff, just like the ALAN Wiki has now become the official Wiki for ALAN info, historical facts, etc. Hence the proposal to move it from my personal GH account to that of the ALAN IF Dev Team — that is, if you agree with it. The repository could host any historical assets that are at risk of disappearing (e.g. old editor syntaxes) due to personal websites being shut down.
I can automatically transfer it, and links to the old repository will be redirected to its new position, so there'll be no hurry to update old links scattered in the various repositories.
The past years of collaborative work on GitHub are finally shaping the whole ALAN ecosystem, and all the major assets are now officially on GitHub, and we're seeing a nicely orchestrated joint effort for maintaining everything related to ALAN, avoid redundancy, and gradually work out and enforce consistency across the various project.
I think these are great achievements, especially since they're the natural result of actual work and practical experience(s), rather than something jotted down overnight. And it's nice to see that ALAN, which is one of the oldest IF systems out here, it's also one of the most organized in terms of latest technologies employed for its development and future maintenance.
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