[Freeciv-Dev] civserver.freeciv.org (was: Suggestion)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:30:30AM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> Reinier Post wrote:
> > civserver.freeciv.org is driven by a script (unpublished) using an
> > unmodified server.  Some changes to the server would be useful, such as
> > the ability to reload savegames into a running server, but it seems to
> > work fairly well without them.
> 
> Just a small note about this.  I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea
> about civserver.  The script is unpublished because it isn't in a state
> that is very easily read.  Almost all of the work was done by Reinier
> himself.  So I will leave opening it up to him, if he wants to.

Thank you, Paul.  My first concern is preventing abuse; after all,
it is Paul's machine this script is running on.  If there is sufficient
demand I guess we could work on a version suitable for publication.
The same is true for the map+stats feature (http://civserver.freeciv.org/)

> (I just didn't want anyone to think that civserver was going to be
> closed with some profit motive or something :)

No, we just share the underlying motive: getting away with bad code :)

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Reinier Post                                             rp@xxxxxxxxxx