[Freeciv-Dev] Re: citymindist patch (V1.0)

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 17:43, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:37:17PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:
> > > However, the public servers can apply the patch themselves, thus
> > > getting the effect you wanted in the first place. (which gives me
> > > a good argument for not applying it to CVS)
> >
> > Well, this patch was meant to ease the life of all players who
> > participate on the metaserver. If Paul & friends are willing
> > to apply the patch it to every CVS server, I am fine.
> >
> > I just guess that if you dont put it into official CVS, the servers
> > will tend to "forget" it.
>
> This is not the case.  We have a 'drop-in' directory for patches,
> and anything put there will automatically be applied before the
> CVS version is compiled every day.

Actually this shouldn't be relevant for CVS servers - as we said we 
plan to have a real non-kludgy solution in CVS.

> > Beside it will be a pain to maintain two
> > different versions all.
>
> Yes, patches should really go into CVS, we've lost 20 or 30 valuable
> patches in the past year, although Thue rescued many others.

Except that this patch is just a temporary placeholder.

> > Anyhow, I only made the patch - its your decision now.
> > ChaosE / Ingo
>
> Can't you just use CVS write access?  These patches of yours actually
> get used in in local games, after all.
>
> > Karl-Ingo Friese
> > kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx