Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Gtk+ FreeCiv Server

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 03:30:35PM +1000, David Pfitzner was heard to say:
> > David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> > > > 3. A local civclient may be started from the same application.
> > > 
> > > This is an especially nice feature, to help users who are confused 
> > > by the client-server nature of things.
> 
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> >   Personally, I'd rather do things the other way around -- have the client
> > start a server.
> 
> Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> 
> > I would have made it run the server from the *client*. 
> 
> Yes, you're both right :-)
> 
> (I think I hadn't considered the possibility of starting a client 
> from the server before, and so it sounded like a neat idea, at first.)  
> 
> Regards,
> -- David

  Actually, maybe we could have it both ways :-)  It could be quite useful
to be able to start a client from the server if, eg, you logged out temporarily
and wanted to start again..

  Daniel

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