[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Question about attributes

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:32:09PM +0200, Teemu Kurppa wrote:
> To continue on the subject: 
> 
> It seems that no code on the client side checks that a server has
> "attribute" capability. For convenient usage of attributes it might be
> best, if this is done "behind the scenes" in attribute.c . If a server
> doesn't support attributes, attribute data isn't send (so it's not
> persistent). Other parts of the client code can still use attribute
> facilities same way without explicitly checking for server capabilities.

IMHO it isn't worth it since there are signals that there will be a
new release in the next time (which means new mandatory
capabilities). So every version which has code which uses attributes
will only work with an attribute enabled server.

        Raimar

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