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Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Plans for the future
From: David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:03:20 +1100

Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> I'd like to have the version number indicate incompatibility - will this
> be a problem?  E.g. 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 clients/servers would be interoperable,
> 1.7.* and 1.8.* wouldn't.  There has been discussion in the past about
> the meaning of version numbers but I'm not sure what the outcome was.

Note that with rulesets, a version with rulesets is not interoperable
with a version without rulesets, except to the extent that it can 
interoperate enough to tell (via capabilities) that its non-interoperable...
It you see what I mean :-/

> A savefile directory cleaner is attached (small patch since last
> version).  Submitted for inclusion into the distribution, if anybody
> but me sees the need.

Unfortunately this doesn't help me much because I don't tend to play 
straight through: instead I save at some point and then restart later, 
which messes up the autosave sequences. 
(But even so it should certainly go into the utils pack.)

-- David


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