[Freeciv-Dev] Re: TODO

[Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Thue <thue@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +- Stop the server from sending text to the clients. Instead it should
> > +  send an enum and some values, which the client converted to a message
> > +  to show to the user. This will give the client more knowledge of the
> > +  content of the messages, needed for fx a client side AI. It will also
> > +  mean that the messages are automatically correctly localized.
> > +  Note that these new messages will have to sometimes contain city names.
> 
> This is still a bit controversial.  I think it should send text (or
> some sort of format string) as well, to avoid excessive future
> compatability breakage (ie, whenever a new message is added).

I don't understand why compatibility breakage is so bad. Why would
anyone want to play with different versions of civserver and civclient?
Is it too hard to download a new version every 4 months? I think most
users would want to do that anyway because I can't imagine someone who
wouldn't want the new features that come with a new version.