[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Question about attributes

[Teemu Kurppa <tkurppa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:

> 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.

We could have backwards capability easily, why not to do it ? 
Clients that use attributes could connect older servers. I bet many
players will have 1.12.0 running even after 1.12.n is released. 

I do the checking manually in the tile marker code, but it would be more
convenient, if this is done in attribute.c, 

Teemu Kurppa