[Freeciv-Dev] [Listar <listar@xxxxxxxxxxx>] Message submitted to 'freeciv-dev'

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: patch: new format for techs,buildings rulesets (PR#101)
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At
  ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/newform_remaining_rs.diff.gz

is a patch which converts the buildings and techs rulesets 
to the new-style format.  As well as just being nicer (:-)
this will make future enhancements easier, such as per-item 
helptext in the ruleset files.

In this case I'd prefer to keep the code simple rather than 
support backward compatability, so there is no provision in 
this patch to support reading old-style formats for these 
rulesets.

Indeed also in this patch I've _removed_ the code to read 
the old-style units ruleset, for the above reason, and because 
the units ruleset file is likely to change a bit more soon, 
with upkeep and helptext etc, and I don't want to have to 
update both lots of code.

Regards,
-- David

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