Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch: solar plant...

[Daniel Sjolie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1999-07-24 13:03:32, David Pfitzner wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Sjolie (deepone@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > 
> > > I now know why I want more general packets... :)
> > > I tried to add fileds to the city struct to display
> > > more detailed pollution info in the client...
> 
> > But this isn't secret information that the client should be able to
> > learn only from the server.  The formulas are (sort of) clearly exposed
> > in the source code, after all.  So put the calculation of pollution in
> > the common directory, and let both the client and the server compute
> > the value, or any subvalues you wish.  Then the client can display all
> > the details without ever consulting the server.
> 
> But then you go more towards having a "smart" client, rather
> than the current "dumb" client.  An advantage of the "dumb"
> approach (that is, send the calculation results instead of 
> having the client do the calcs itself) is that its easy to 
> keep backward compatability if we were to change the details
> of the calculation.

Indeed...
This would mean a very obvious incompability problem...
If calcutlation is changed between versions different
clients will show different information - not good...

/Daniel

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