[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] dwp: Changed protocol the network byte order, becaus...

[Matt Busigin <jediknight@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Mar 1999 freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

#Changed protocol the network byte order, because its "the 
#right thing to do".  Byte order patch by Trent Piepho.   
#Also put in code to handle the first packet received from 
#a connection (on the server) specially, to detect and deal 
#with connection from a client with the old byte order.  
#(Only enough so that we can reject the client cleanly via 
#capabilities, and so the old client gets a message it can 
#deal with.)  New clients connecting to old servers will still 
#cause problems (connection at socket level, but no packet
#communication).  Incremented the capability string to 
#"+1.8pre2".  Minor code cleanups in sernet.c

Can we make the new network byte order in the client a comment line option?

                        cheers,
                                matt

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