Weekly development report 2023-07-01

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)

A new month and again nothing to report in the stable version. It means that probably the current stable version will remain in that state. There is just one more week before release of the last development version for 9.0 version of the game, thus no too much time to find any bugs. ;)

In the development version, a couple (literally) of changes which are visible and useful for the players arrived:

• Added information about types of bases to the game's help. Same as for factions or careers, it shows the same information which is available on the new game screen.
• Added ability to select or unselect all crew members for boarding an enemy ship or defending the player's ship in combat.
• The most time this week spent on moving an old code to Nim. Now, all the code related to the game's missions are in their new home. A lot of code related to the game's help were moved, either.
• And the old code got some standard almost infinite cleanup. ;)

Nimalyzer

The static code analyzer for Nim programming language

Week like a roller-coaster ride. ;) Started with stopping work on external rules feature and ended by almost finished adding a new rule. 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. ;)

• GitHub workflow file updated with build the release version of the program for Windows and FreeBSD. Also added build the release version for Linux.

• As mentioned above the work on external program's rules continued by some time. Unfortunately, the option with support them as dynamic loaded libraries also didn't work. Looks like in Nim 1.6.12 there are some problems with llStreams and using them from C. Also, creating the program's feature require a lot of changes into the code. I'm not sure if it is even needed. Adding a new rule to the program and recompiling it, is currently quite simple. So, the work on the feature stopped, and all previous changes related to it are removed from the code.

• Added the new program's rule: ifStatements. As its name suggests, the rule runs various checks against if statements in the checked code. Currently, it can detect:

  1. Empty statements (only with discard statement).
  2. Else branches which are after "final" statements like return, break, raise or continue.
  3. Negative conditions in statements which have else branch.

  The rule can also fix the code by removing, replacing or moving the code. The work here is almost done, there are still a couple of issues to fix and create any documentation for the rule. But generally it works, the program uses it now too. :)

Wine cellar

A graphical user interface for managing Windows programs on FreeBSD

Only changes related to the Nim binding for Nuklear library arrived this week. Added using statement plus ability to set the amount of items on the list to show in a combo widget.

Nuklear Nim

The thin Nim binging to Nuklear GUI library

Time for the monthly update. ;) The changes from Wine Cellar project arrived here. Plus small updates to the project's documentation.

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