[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv and a tournament

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.

My plans for the metaserver:

  - make it use HTTP and a CGI script (much more versatile)
  - adjust the UDP-based server to issue HTTP requests
    (for backward compatibility)
  - support various output formats: HTML, plain text, RDF

> > 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.

Freeciv needs more players.  Having 10 or more different metaservers
would be bad.  I would be against distributing the code with Freeciv.
We went through times when the existing metaserver was down for weeks at
a time.  Thanks to Paul, this is no longer a problem.

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