[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Happiness & CMA things: into CVS, when?

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:14:49PM +0200, Thue wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2001 23:38, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:47:49PM +0200, Thue wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 April 2001 22:55, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
> > > > Hi freecivers (especially admins and CVS writers),
> > > >
> > > > As you may have seen, my city dialog project is something next to
> > > > ready. There are only two major things: to put 1) happiness display and
> > > > 2) CMA in their own places on the dialog.
> > > >
> > > > But I'm not going to do that before they are in the CVS as they now are
> > > > - and that's a problem. PLEASE CONSIDER APPLYING THEM (at least READ
> > > > them so that they can be more quicklier be corrected to CVS-ready
> > > > stage).
> > > >
> > > > Please...!
> > >
> > > If someone (re)sends me the latest version then I will take a look.
> >
> > It look like we have the following dependency tree: the new city
> > dialog needs CMA. CMA needs attribute handling, city calculation in
> > common, note handling (with serial numbers) and minor fixes.
> >
> > I have attached an updated version of attribute handling and city
> > calculation patch. If these two patches are in the CVS I will work on
> > the others and resent them.
> >
> >     Raimar
> 
> On moving stuff to common: We have to be very carefull if we do this! It 
> would be bad if the server got out of sync with the client. The good part is 
> that we can make an automated checker that compares the values the server 
> gives us with the values the client generates.

The server is the instance which decides. CMA is currently the only
client side user of the generic_city_refresh(). CMA compares the
result of the server against the own calculation. If they differ it
dumps a core.

> That said, there seem not to be that many problems. But I would think this 
> was 1.12.0 stuff.
> 
> Attribute handling seem nice. But not much use right now if the CMA is 
> suspended until after 1.12.0.

So the big question is: what will we get 1.12.0?

        Raimar

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