Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Endianess of packet data

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Artur Biesiadowski wrote:

> It seems to me that big endian data is used, 

Network byte order is now used.  (Whatever that is ;-)

> but at the same time there
> is a test for other layout. Should I suppose that all modern
> servers/clients use bigendian in packets or should I detect this ?

For writing a client, you can assume the current byte order.
The current server partially handles the old byte order, so
that it can successfully tell older clients to go away.

-- David