dgoodwin's blog

Big milestone in rounder development tonight. Brace yourselves for what's likely the most unattractive poker interface ever created:

This is two clients connected to a server, viewing the same table, with the first network events being dispatched and rendered. (player joined table and player left table) It's not a hard scenario to replicate if you have the source checked out and the dependencies installed, just fire up rounder-server, then run the rounder executable right in the top level directory as many times as you like. The server is configured to accept about 10 logins of player0/password, player1/password, etc.

Things have been moving along drastically faster lately, I've been finding about an hour a night to hack on it as opposed to the previous average of few hours a month. Meanwhile Kenny has jumped into the fray with a patch I consider quite impressive. Following my previous development update post bitching about the logic involved with handling all-ins, he started reading code and composed a much simpler and more logical way to handle this core engine logic and implemented the whole thing.

Tonight's milestone, while quite unimpressive visually, indicates that there's a LOT of plumbing in place. Seeing those little events fly back and forth was extremely fulfilling. Getting a hand to play through is now a matter of hooking up a minimal amount of code to fire off a poker hand, and continuing to add client support for incoming events from the server. (most of these are implemented and being sent out server side, although I'm sure there'll be a few to come down the line)

Still a pile of work to be done before a 1.0 but we're getting there. All the project info you desire is available here.