Dart support

[blue_iris]

I'm thinking of creating an Ants starter package for Google's new Dart programming language. (I did a forum search, didn't see any mention of Dart, so I assume that nobody has done a Dart starter package yet. Please let me know if I am mistaken.)

Dart can run either as its own VM or by compiling to JavaScript. For this contest I think it will be simpler to compile Dart to JavaScript, to take advantage of the already-existing JavaScript support.

I hope to have a package available in a couple of days.

[blue_iris]

Here's a Dart starter package:

http://code.google.com/p/ants-dart-starter-package

It is a direct translation of the JavaScript starter package.

[pedrosorio]

[amstan]

[blue_iris]

Sounds good to me.

My pull request is:

https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/pull/367

This change requires someone to manually add the dart frogsh compiler tarball to the ai contest server's download_base directory. I didn't see how to make that happen as part of the github commit.

[amstan]

[blue_iris]

Heh, yeah, that's me. It's a fun way to contribute to the contest!

[blue_iris]

I see that the dart starter package is now listed and can be downloaded. But unfortunately when it is uploaded, it is not recognized.

I filed issue https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/issues/369 "Uploaded dart code is not being recognized" about it.

Please let me know if there's anything I need to do to fix this -- it sort of looks like the compiler code that is running on the aichallenge servers hasn't been updated from my pull request yet, but maybe there's some thing wrong with my pull request.

For reference the change that tried to add Dart support is:

https://github.com/aichallenge/aichalle ... 2a68214b85

[blue_iris]

Well, good news / bad news / good news:

good news: the aichallenge workers have been updated to try and run dart bots.

bad news: there's a bug in the dart compiler installer, it's missing some files, and so the dart bots will fail to compile.

good news: I've updated the dart compiler installer package and submitted a pull request:

https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/pull/371

Second times a charm?

[Janzert]

And the latest changes should be live.