Coders' Wishlists for 2006

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Ryan M.

• Much more organized default code. Sure, you can take the stuff they give you and fix it, but then when they change a few things next year you have to start all over. One easy thing which would be especially nice for newer programmers would be just move all the utility include files into a separate directory. (Leave things that people commonly want to edit in the main area.)
• Stripped down version of the default code. A version of the default code which contained only the essential, basic structure would be handy for the more advanced teams. Continue to have a version with examples, but also make one which gets rid of things like the default mappings of the joysticks to the motors.

I've seen several people make comments about the default code. If you don't like it, why don't you fix it and release it yourself? Nothing is stopping you from stripping it down and posting it, and maybe if you do so there's a chance IFI could pick it up and pass it on. I see no reason why the default code couldn't become a community-maintained thing. IFI could continue to provide their default stuff, but they could easily point people off to anyone else who's done work to enhance the default code.