[Freeciv-Dev] Re: release plans

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Artur Biesiadowski wrote:

> I would consider one more thing for stable release - optional packets I
> was talking about some time ago. They would allow extending
> server/client without breaking compatibility with new non-critical
> packets like reports/autosettler hints/etc.

You can already do this to some extent by adding non-required
tags to the capability string, and checking has_capability().
So I don't see a huge advantage to "optional packets".

But also: have you designed, implemented, tested, and debugged 
code for optional packets?  Otherwise its getting a bit late 
to go into 1.9.0 even if it would be desirable.

-- David