Weekly development report 2021-09-11

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)

If you dig deep enough, you will find something to fix. :) In the stable version, I found that space key sometimes react weird. It is now fixed. Because it doesn't cause any crashes, I will wait with the next release to the next week and check if I can find even more problems. Or if someone can point me to them. Except not working on with older version of GNU libc on Linux. That one problem need a lot more work. At this moment, the only way to fix it, is to use the Windows version of the game, eh. :(

The development version work going in the normal, slow speed:

Finally, finished work on sorting various lists in the game. The last thing were the lists in the game statistics screen. At least one task done. :)
Added some limits for modifying the game. I guess that no one needs, that attribute can have a name or a description 2 billion characters long. I reduced possible lengths to some more reasonable values. Also, the amount of tools qualities settings for the skills is now limited to 16 positions max. The reason of this change is same as above. If these limits will be too strong, I will raise them later.
The change above also triggered changes to the game documentation.
As usual, a few more problems reported by the AdaControl tool fixed too.
General work on some redesign of the code of the game continues. That sometimes triggers a lot of changes in the code, but looks like everything works as expected.
Some small work related to the project organization done either.

TASHY2

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

Same as in the previous week: work on package Tk.Bind in on the way. Now it is on the creating the function to convert Key_Syms_Type to string. It is slowly moving forward, with constant updating the proper unit tests. Thus, looks like everything works as expected. The code of the demo program is now ready to be checked with SPARK. All things which cannot be proved are moved to the separated package. The work on sparkification of the project continues. This time it triggered to add Window_Attribute_Type in Tk.Wm package to use with Get_Attribute functions. Of course, that change was triggered also changes in unit tests. Another thing related to SPARK: as I'm slowly fixing the problem reported by it, I have to use package Ada.Numerics.Big_Numbers.Big_Integers for some subprogram's contracts. Unfortunately, GNAT consider that package as an extension to the Ada and not a part of itself. Thus, a new compilation flag is needed for library: -gnatX. And at the end of the week, there were done a few small things related to the project organization.

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

As the work on Tashy finished, the work on the Hunter slowly back to its slow pace. But this week changes are short as in the previous:

Fixed package Modules so it doesn't need Tk library anymore. This triggered some changes in the whole code either. But at least, now, the console version of the program can be build fully headless. :)
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 (added s here :P): fixing the problems reported by AdaControl continues. Work on the package Sitemaps slowly going forward. And as in the others projects, I started using dedicated AdaControl Docker image for it.

TASHY

Ada binding to Tcl/Tk, based on TASH

The setup script updated to fix a few small problems inside. Also, the project's changelog file updated with information about the last changes to the library. And this means that the new version is available for download. :) The work here is done again for some time, so the project is going to sleep again.

DockerAda

Various Docker images files related to the Ada programming language

Last time the project back to the list like boomerang. :) As the new version of Tashy was released, the images Adabuild and Adabuildwin64 updated to use the new version of it. Also, there is a new image available now: AdaControl got its own image, as it need the newest version of Tashy too. And the work here is also done.