[Freeciv-Dev] Re: rfc on allowconnect

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:59:11PM -0400, Robin Dziama wrote:
> Please excuse a suggestion by a newbie to freeciv, but a long time developer.
> 
> If the current client is transformed into a server-client pair with the
> local server behaving as a client with regard to the game server and
> allowing local clients that can accept observer connections as well as
> allow the player to have multiple views (a trident tileset on one desktop
> with a hires on another ) might be a simpler approach. I'm also thinking
> multi-threaded. 

The new connection dialog (old patch in the archives) will couple the
server and client more tightly.

        Raimar

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