[rfk-dev] code status

[Alexey Toptygin]

Sorry for not posting anything in a while. I've put out a new release of 
my rfk source. You can get it here:

http://alexeyt.freeshell.org/code/rfk/rfk-20051013.tgz

It adresses the randomization efficiency issue Leonard pointed out.

It also adds back the "You found kitten..." message that was in the 
original sources. I didn't have it in initially since the message isn't 
visible in terminals that have the smcup/rmcup capabilities (i.e. xterm) 
so I didn't realize I was missing anything.

Also, the number pad now works with NumLock both on and off (which is an 
improvement over the original source).

I've changed all of the headers to say "EXISTENCE OF KITTEN", like Leonard 
suggested.

I've also added a manpage, and fixed a bug in the bogus item init code 
that could cause 2 bogus items to appear in the same place (effectively 
reducing the number of bugus items). Finally, I tweaked the signedness of 
some int types, as appropriate.

As far as Debian packaging goes, I'm not a registered debian developer 
yet, so maintainership hasn't been handed over to me. I'm planning on 
doing that in the same time frame as Debianizing the new code base, which 
is some time after Autoconf support (Real Soon Now (TM)). I'm sorry about 
the slow pace of the work, but I've got a full-time job, and I'm trying 
to finish my bachelor's degree this semester (and I'm moving into a new 
house this month), so I hope you'll forgive me :-)

Lastly, people have been talking about putting the vanilla NKIs back into 
the binary. I don't really want to do this, as getting rid of this was 
half of the reason I started rewriting RFK in the first place. If the 
concensus weighs in the other direction, however, we could add that in as 
a compile-time option (so that NKIs would come from the binary, 
SYSTEM_NKI_DIR _and_ ~/.robotfindskitten). I guess deciding this is up to 
the community.

 			Alexey