[Freeciv-Dev] Re: 3 patches for use on public gameservers

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:31:22PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:14:46PM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:06:28PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 
> > > So we may not tied these settings to DEBUG or NDEBUG but a PUBLIC_USE
> > > or MEDIUM_SECURITY?!
> > 
> > Well, the 'cmdlevel' was introduced for that purpose.
> > But I'm not sure how to apply it here.
> 
> So we need to protect certain value sets of certain variables by
> certain cmdlevels?! Sounds like a bit overkill to me.

If you have a setting, it's best to make it runtime inspectable,
and configurable if desired.  This is the reason Freeciv has a
'cmdleel' command instead of a fixed PUBLIC_USE define.

>       Raimar

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Reinier