Feature #1794: Mobile apps and shared client/server code (more modular code structure) - Doomsday Engine - Tracker

Feature #1794

Mobile apps and shared client/server code (more modular code structure)

Added by skyjake over 10 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Deng Team

Category:

Redesign

Target version:

Start date:

2014-05-02

% Done:

40%

Tags:

CodeQuality

Description

Currently, the client and the server are separate applications but share some of the source code files. This is not an ideal situation, because code is duplicated, preprocessor segments __CLIENT__ and __SERVER__ can get cumbersome/confusing, and the basic structure lacks flexibility.

In the future, for instance an iOS app needs to contain both the client and the server components wrapped under an iOS-specific UI.

The common code shared by the client and server (basic map data, resource handling), needs to be separated into its own (shared or static) library, so that both applications can use it. (The client would extend some of the classes with GL, etc. functionality.)

The naming of the libraries could be improved:

libdeng2 => libcore
libdeng1 => liblegacy (support for legacy code)

New libraries:

libserver => static library with server-specific, platform-independent functionality
libclient => static library with client-specific, platform-independent functionality
libdoomsday => library containing code shared by the client and server (GPL)

Related issues

History

#1 Updated by skyjake over 10 years ago

% Done changed from 0 to 10

#2 Updated by skyjake almost 10 years ago

Assignee changed from skyjake to Deng Team

#3 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Description updated (diff)

#4 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

% Done changed from 10 to 30

#5 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

% Done changed from 30 to 20

The work in the cmake-build branch brings some improvements for modularity. Also, Qt 5 has better support for mobile OSes overall.

#6 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Related to Feature #1637: Switch to Qt 5 added

#7 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Related to Feature #1887: Migrate project build system to CMake 3 added

#8 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Related to Feature #1991: Qt 5.5 as minimum requirement for GUI, Qt 5.x for non-GUI build added

#9 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Related to deleted (Feature #1637: Switch to Qt 5)

#10 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Related to Feature #1675: Switch to new Qt 5.4+ OpenGL APIs (from QGLWidget) added

#11 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

Subject changed from Modularized project structure to enable mobile apps, shared client/server code to Mobile apps and shared client/server code (more modular code structure)