[Kde-games-devel] Revision No. 20 of my patch to integrate fc-solve into kpat

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

You can find the 20th revision of my patch to integrate fc-solve 
( http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ ) into KDE's KPatience here:

1. http://www.shlomifish.org/kpat-fc-solve/

2. https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/kdegames (branch "kpat-fc-solve-integration" 
).

I started maintaining the patch to the sources inside a Mercurial repository 
in order to prevent data loss after I nearly completely lost two files after I 
deleted all files marked as "? " in my Subversion working copy (and luckily 
was saved by Vim's *~ backup files). 

The changes since last time are many - I extract a common abstract base class 
called FcSolveSolver which allowed me to get rid of a lot of duplicate code, 
and now the source of the Freecell Solver library is not embedded inside, but 
rather required from its pkg-config file. This brought a detection that fc-
solve did not properly install all the required headers, which will be fixed 
in the next release and meanwhile requires building the fc-solve trunk:

http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fc-solve/fc-solve/trunk/

I also fixed many other bugs in the patch, and from what I tested it is 
working nicely. 

An open question is which preset of Freecell Solver (see 
"--load-config" here - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/docs/distro/USAGE.html ) to 
use. As expected, some presets are faster (on average) and yield relatively 
long results (on average) , while others are slower and yield relatively short 
results. I have an idea for constructing a preset that will try some 
heuristics that yield short solutions with a fallback on a fast heuristic, 
which won't require any patching to fc-solve, just playing with command line 
arguments.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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