[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Interoperability with 1.12.1 version (PR#1558)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:

> Index: doc/BUGS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/doc/BUGS,v
> retrieving revision 1.5
> diff -u -r1.5 BUGS
> --- doc/BUGS  2002/06/08 10:47:25     1.5
> +++ doc/BUGS  2002/06/27 13:00:26
> @@ -82,6 +82,13 @@
>   - The xaw client does not work well with the KDE window manager.
>     Try using the gtk client or another window manager.
>  
> + - Version 1.30.0 will not work with version 1.12.0 or any previous
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[...]

> +   versions. Note that the client will not fail softly with a
> +   capability problem but hard with a message similar to
> +     civclient: packets.c:4475: receive_packet_attribute_chunk:
> +     Assertion `packet->total_length > 0 && packet->total_length <
> +     (1024*64)' failed.

Capabilities were introduced to prevent that.

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Reinier