Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Roadmap

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Massimo Campostrini wrote:

> I have now planned a more structured roadmap to "Generalized new races
> selection", hopefully it will be easier to merge this into 1.8.

Your plan looks good to me.   Matched server-client changes should 
be do-able with straightforward use of capabilities.

>  Race info must include names (race,
> leader, titles, cities ...) and flag.  What stopped me was the need to
> send a picture, maybe now I understand better the communication code
> and I can do it.

I still think that sending a flag image is the wrong approach,
because the client may potentially be using different sized tiles, 
a different colormap, different graphics format, ascii ;-), etc.
I gave my preferences for extensible races, including handling 
the flag problem, in:

http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/freeciv-dev-199901/msg00090.html

(The list archive is cool! :-)

Regards,
-- David