Development currently in devel/ branch. Moved typeclasses to use django's proxy functionality. Changed the Evennia folder layout to a library format with a stand-alone launcher, in preparation for making an 'evennia' pypy package and using versioning. The version we will merge with will likely be 0.5. There is also work with an expanded testing structure and the use of threading for saves. We also now use Travis for automatic build checking.
Updated to Django 1.7+ which means South dependency was dropped and minimum Python version upped to 2.7. MULTISESSION_MODE=3 was added and the web customization system was overhauled using the latest functionality of django. Otherwise, mostly bug-fixes and implementation of various smaller feature requests as we got used to github. Many new users have appeared.
Moved Evennia project from Google Code to github.com/evennia/evennia.
Moved the internal webserver into the Server and added support for out-of-band protocols (MSDP initially). This large development push also meant fixes and cleanups of the way attributes were handled. Tags were added, along with proper handlers for permissions, nicks and aliases.
Made players able to control more than one Character at the same time, through the MULTISESSION_MODE=2 addition. This lead to a lot of internal changes for the server.
Changed Evennia from the Modified Artistic 1.0 license to the more standard and permissive BSD license. Lots of updates and bug fixes as more people start to use it in new ways. Lots of new caching and speed-ups.
Evennia's API has changed and simplified slightly in that the base-modules where removed from game/gamesrc. Instead admins are encouraged to explicitly create new modules under game/gamesrc/ when they want to implement their game - gamesrc/ is empty by default except for the example folders that contain template files to use for this purpose. We also added the ev.py file, implementing a new, flat API. Work is ongoing to add support for mud-specific telnet extensions, notably the MSDP and GMCP out-of-band extensions. On the community side, evennia's dev blog was started and linked on planet Mud-dev aggregator.
After creating several different proof-of-concept game systems (in contrib and privately) as well testing lots of things to make sure the implementation is basically sound, we are declaring Evennia out of Alpha. This can mean as much or as little as you want, admittedly - development is still heavy but the issue list is at an all-time low and the server is slowly stabilizing as people try different things with it. So Beta it is!
Split Evennia into two processes: Portal and Server. After a lot of work trying to get in-memory code-reloading to work, it's clear this is not Python's forte - it's impossible to catch all exceptions, especially in asynchronous code like this. Trying to do so results in hackish, flakey and unstable code. With the Portal-Server split, the Server can simply be rebooted while players connected to the Portal remain connected. The two communicates over twisted's AMP protocol.
The new version of Evennia, originally hitting trunk in Aug2010, is maturing. All commands from the pre-Aug version, including IRC/IMC2 support works again. An ajax web-client was added earlier in the year, including moving Evennia to be its own webserver (no more need for Apache or django-testserver). Contrib-folder added.
Evennia-griatch-branch is ready for merging with trunk. This marks a rather big change in the inner workings of the server, such as the introduction of TypeClasses and Scripts (as compared to the old ScriptParents and Events) but should hopefully bring everything together into one consistent package as code development continues.
Evennia is currently being heavily revised and cleaned from the years of gradual piecemeal development. It is thus in a very 'Alpha' stage at the moment. This means that old code snippets will not be backwards compatabile. Changes touch almost all parts of Evennia's innards, from the way Objects are handled to Events, Commands and Permissions.
Griatch takes over Maintainership of the Evennia project from the original creator Greg Taylor.
(Earlier revisions, with previous maintainer, go back to 2005)
Make a post to the mailing list or chat us up on IRC. We also have a bug tracker if you want to report bugs. Finally, if you are willing to help with the code work, we much appreciate all help! Visit either of the following resources:
- Evennia Webpage http://evennia.com
- Evennia manual (wiki) https://github.com/evennia/evennia/wiki
- Evennia Code Page (See INSTALL text for installation) https://github.com/evennia/evennia
- Bug tracker https://github.com/evennia/evennia/issues
- IRC channel visit channel #evennia on irc.freenode.com or the webclient: http://tinyurl.com/evchat