[Freeciv-Dev] Re: console cleanup 3 (PR#1749)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:03:35AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:08:20PM -0700, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > This is a reversal of my previous console cleanup patch from December.
> > Instead of fixing rfcstyle, it nixes it. Along with the bathwater goes the
> > remaining "undocumented" commands "log" and "crash" as well. Also,
> 
> I used crash in the past. It should stay. You can remove log however.
> 
> > "rulesout" is set to appear only in debug mode. This is only because I was
> > uncertain if total removal would be acceptable (it is totally useless
> > code, IMHO, and big too). Finally the option "maxplayers" is removed,
> > since this is rarely (if ever) used for anything but civserver abuse.
> 
> I can remember using maxplayers to automatically start the server if I
> connect my one client. But this doesn't work with current CVS. Have I
> dreamed this up? If yes can we add an auto_start option?

As I recall, yes, this _was_ the behavior of maxplayers, but it was
changed for some reason or another.

What exactly would trigger this auto_start option?

-mike