[Freeciv-Dev] Re: server console cleanup patch v2

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:41:32AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> > What do people think of making the server non-interactive anyway? A bad
> > thing in principle, or ok if done properly?
> 
> It would be good to still have the cmdline interface in the server binary,
> otherwise you need to start up two programs just to run a server.

IMHO a cmdline interface controller program is needed. I have no
problem with a seperate controller program if it starts the server
transparently in the background. Since it is a client (a special one)
it can also act in other ways: for example as an observer.

Another idea: suppose you have a meta-server2 (the name meta-server is
currently used and I don't know how much intersection is there between
meta-server and meta-server2). This meta-server2 is a non-interactive
demon. Its purpose is to start things. So this mentioned controller
can tell the meta-server2 to start a new server. The client for
example can also (after gathering the necessary data from the user)
send a request to the meta-server2 to start a new server. And the
server can (if we have some day the aibots) tell the meta-server2 to
start a new aibot if a human player disconnects. Nice idea but
probably overkill.

        Raimar

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