Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Parlance
Version: 1.4.1
Summary: A framework for playing the Diplomacy board game over a network.
Home-page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/parlance/
Author: Eric Wald
Author-email: breadman@users.sourceforge.net
License: Artistic License 2.0
Description: Parlance Diplomacy Framework
        ============================
        
        About Parlance
        --------------
        
        Parlance is a framework for playing the `Diplomacy`_ board game over a network,
        using the protocol and message syntax developed by the `Diplomacy AI
        Development Environment`_ (DAIDE) community.
        
        The Parlance server differs from the official DAIDE server in that it can serve
        multiple games (consecutively or concurrently), is more configurable, can be
        managed remotely through admin commands, and accepts a slightly broader message
        syntax.
        
        Parlance also includes a framework for clients, along with a simple bot to
        replace an absent player.  This framework has also been used by the clients of
        the `Parang`_ package.
        
        Parlance may be used, modified, and/or redistributed under the terms of
        the `Artistic License 2.0`_, as published by the Perl Foundation.
        
        .. _Diplomacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
        .. _Diplomacy AI Development Environment: http://www.daide.org.uk/index.xml
        .. _Parang: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Parang/
        .. _Artistic License 2.0: http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0
        
        
        Commands
        --------
        
        Parlance installs the following commands:
        
        parlance-server
        Starts a game server
        
        parlance-holdbot
        Starts one or more HoldBots
        
        parlance-config
        Prints out an example configuration file
        
        parlance-raw-client
        Connects to a server, translating network messages to and from DAIDE message
        syntax on standard input and output.
        
        parlance-raw-server:
        Listens for clients, translating network messages to and from DAIDE message
        syntax on standard input and output.
        
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        Parlance can be installed with `Easy Install`_ from a command prompt::
        
        > easy_install parlance
        
        Alternatively, once you have downloaded and unpacked a source distribution, you
        can install it with::
        
        > python setup.py install
        
        .. _Easy Install: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
        
        
        Credits
        -------
        
        * Daniel Loeb started the `Diplomacy Programming Project`_ in 1990, developing
        a language for communication between computer players and a GM.
        
        * Andrew Rose developed the `network protocol`_ used to connect clients to the
        server, and wrote a DLL implementation of it.
        
        * David Norman extended the DPP communication language into the `DAIDE message
        syntax`_, translated several variant maps into it, and wrote the first
        full-featured server, bot, and graphical player interface to use the DAIDE
        protocols.
        
        * Eric Wald wrote the first versions of Parlance to extend the DAIDE
        environment to non-Windows platforms, particularly Linux.
        
        .. _Diplomacy Programming Project: http://www.diplom.org/Zine/S1995M/Loeb/Project.html
        .. _DAIDE message syntax: http://www.ellought.demon.co.uk/dipai/dpp_syntax.rtf
        .. _network protocol: http://www.daide.org.uk/external/comproto.html
        
        
Keywords: daide diplomacy board game server
Platform: Any
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Artistic License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Games/Entertainment :: Board Games
Classifier: Topic :: Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
