[Freeciv-Dev] Re: feature request: savegame compatibility with 1.9.x and earlier (PR#1818)

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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:12:50PM -0700, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > of a certainty, but I think it was good to waste compatibility with
> > pre-1.9.0 savegames; however, we (you) probably should put up a modified
> > savegame.c that loads old games, but saves them as new ones. That way
> > people who have ancient games (who almost certainly know what they're
> > doing) can recusitate them.
> 
> First I want to know if there _actually_ are anyone out there with that
> old savegames that they wish to keep.

At FUADEC we discussed the issue of Civ II compatibility:
are developers allowed to make changes that take Freeciv further away
from Civ II compatibility?  The example given was hitpoints/firepower.

I think we should turn Freeciv compatibility into an issue as well.
Freeciv sometimes breaks backward compatibility without really
documenting this in a single place.  It would be nice to have
a webpage or something else with a list of modifications that
break tilesets, savegames, etc., or change the gameplay.

> Yours
> Per

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