[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv and a tournament

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxx>]

jesdynf wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> 
> > The problem with this is that it depends on the metasever.  The current
> > metaserver is kind of a kludge and hasn't really been changes since
> > version 1.6.?(? I think).
> 
> One of the reasons I never really understood the idea of the metaserver
> until 1.8 or so was because I couldn't find a single line of source to
> deal with it. Shouldn't we have the metaserver source in the FreeCiv code
> tree? Not everybody NEEDS the metaserver, and it probably shouldn't be
> built by default, but if it was just IN the tree, people might start
> hacking it.
> 
> Maybe it oughta go in? Maybe under, say, "make metaserver" or even a
> special configure flag, "--with-metaserver" so that normally run
> configures won't even make the Makefiles for the mserver.
> 
> > Reinier Post is the only person I have talked to that has put any work
> > in on this, but he is really busy and I wouldn't want to tax his time
> > any more. (Unfortunately I am rather busy too, planning a wedding seems
> > to be a huge time commitment, go figure :)
> 
> I can well imagine... I'm only a middling-fair C hacker -- my best work is
> in code maintenance and debugging -- but I might give this server work a
> small shot...

I like these ideas.  I have cvs write access, but only because I host
the machine, does a 'real' developer want to take a look at this?

-- 
Paul Zastoupil