[Freeciv-Dev] Re: CMA 3.0

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:37:36AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:41:55PM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > Please note that this patch required my previous 
> > save_options patch (PR #1097) which saves the client's options using
> > secfile_* (see how useful it is? :) It's in there so you don't have to 
> > go find it to apply this one.

The client options are the presets, right?

> 
> This should be solved by attributes. There should be an extra
> attribute flag which is either: SAVE_ON_SERVER, SAVE_ON_CLIENT,
> SAVE_ON_BOTH. Note that you also have to specify from which source you

Why should the presets be saved on the server?

> want to load attributes because this will lead to clashes
> otherwise. The client attributes could be saved in a simple binary
> file ".civclient.attributes". Yes this isn't nicely editable but the

bad

> other option would be to have two interfaces: the attribute one and
> another one for the textual client side.

I think its better to keep the agent's stuff on the client side
as much as possible. I've learned that's it's necessary to have
some common code, but presets are a user's matter, no?

Christian

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