[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv networking

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, [BIG5] ½²«íµØ wrote:

> I have thinking if it is possible to take out all the network
> codes from server and implement them as a different program
> which spawns freeciv core and do all the communication with
> freeciv core through stdin/stdout. Does this work in all platform?

Yes that's possible.

But i have several reasons against it:
1) slow (one more layer)
2) you still have to code the network suport for the other program
3) prone to problems
4) difficult to sync both programs

I guess it won't work on platforms without multitasking, but we don't
support those anyway...

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa