[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] more complete fix for PR#1214

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kaufman wrote:

> I almost commited this along with Jason's patch, but I thought that I
> might see if you all can find something wrong with it first.
>          
> in a nutshell, if you have a savefile with just the map and some start
> positions, it is (and should be) a perfectly valid savefile (it's a
> new_game). But you get scary messages when you shouldn't.
Such a game cannot be produced by civserver, right?  It can only be made 
 by civserver (I assume) or manually?
If this is the case, some comment to that effect is needed, lest someone 
try to remove the "unneeded" check later.
jason