YATC seems to be active

[berserkly]

I LOVED this client back in ~2008.

I'm seeing many new commits over the past 4 years. Cool! Does anyone still use it? Where is it being used? I can't I find about it in OTLand.

[ivucica]

Interesting question, and thank you for the kind words, but you might end up disappointed.

These commits only served the following:

• I wanted the project I spent so much time working on to still build
• I wanted to learn how to build game-type things with Bazel
  • being able to bazel build //:yatc and get a working client out made me happy
• I wanted to have an easily rebuildable SDL1.2
  • so I can try to triage why locking an SDL surface, colorizing it, and then unlocking it before uploading it to OpenGL backend was crashing on SDL_UnlockSurface() call
    • which was my pet peeve since the days we first had the OpenGL backend working and casting a nice lightmap
• I wanted to review how the server-sent protocol and the file formats work, and investigate fiddling with them in Go, so I needed a working deeply-inspectable client

While I haven't managed to fix the SDL bug, I have triaged it. All three goals being achieved, I don't plan on working on this further.

I have not worked on YATC to continue adding features, nor to update it to talk newer protocols (nor to add older protocol support). And as of Apr 2020, I still have no plans to extend it beyond the state in which it's in. And I also have no plans working on the Go codebase further.

I don't use this client anywhere and don't plan on promoting it.

While I will still review pull requests or answer reasonable questions, I won't be implementing new things in it or be using it. I don't find this codebase particularly maintainable anymore, nor a good base for implementing anything other than an SDL1.2-based client talking certain Tibia protocols with some OTserv servers.