Weekly development report 2023-06-24

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)

Another week without changes to the stable version. Well, I have a feeling that the next major stable release will have a lot more to report in the matter of bugs. :)

The work in the development version comes in it normal pace. This week brings changes visible and even useful for players. ;)

Fixed look of the base's info dialog when the player's reputation in it is unknown.
Added information about available in-game factions (races) to the in-game help. It now shows the description of factions and relations with other factions, like enemy or friends.
Fixed updating the map after the movement of the player's ship.
Added information about available the player's careers (professions) to the game. Similar to the factions' info, it shows the description of careers and list of skills which have bonuses to experience from that career.
Some old code replaced with the new written in Nim. Mostly related to the missions' system.
And remaining old code got small updates too.

Nimalyzer

The static code analyzer for Nim programming language

Again, some new features arrived this week. This time it also brings some breaking changes. After all the project is still in pre-alpha stage. Mostly due to lack of features and tests. ;)

BREAKING: Made check for correctness of custom options' values case-insensitive. Now typeFields and typefields are equal. This is breaking change at the moment only for hasDoc rule, which had option with upper and lower case letters.
Changed name of typeFields to typefields of the configuration option for hasDoc rule. This is breaking change only for development build, not releases.
Rule hasDoc now can insert the selected template of documentation into various elements of checked code. The template has to be a text file in reStructuredText syntax, used by Nim documentation. The example of that template can be found in the rule's unit tests directory.
Speaking of which, tests for hasDoc rule was updated for checking fix type of the rule.
And the project documentation was updated with information about the fix type of hasDoc rule.
genrule tool got some updates in preparation for add a new big feature of the program.
Added testing do the project builds on Windows and FreeBSD in the GitHub workflow. After a couple of bugs, looks like everything works. :)
And the work started on the mentioned big feature: external rules for the program. Currently, I'm looking for the working way to add the thing. :) The first try was using Nim scripts as the external rules. Unfortunately, a lot of compiler package code works only in compilation mode. Now I'm testing the second option: external rules as dynamic libraries. At the first glance, it looks good, but I need more time for implement it and test. This work should take some time, so the next week report will be probably a lot shorter than this. ;)

Wine cellar

A graphical user interface for managing Windows programs on FreeBSD

The work continues in slow pace. Now the program has a simple About the program's dialog and started work on the user interface for adding a new Window's application. This mean that the program now also downloading information about available wine-freesbie versions from the GitHub and detect installed Wine versions. Not too much but still something to show. ;)