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

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, 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.

Ok. But can you explain to me how crash is useful? This eludes me.

> > "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?

This feature should be part of the improved game startup work (ie move
this into the client).

Yours
Per