[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Network bandwidth, and other things.

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Raimar Falke wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Juan Uriarte wrote:
> 
> >>>I didn't looked at the patch. Now looking in the current patch I see
> >>>that we both had indead the same idea. I avoided zlib compression till
> >>>now since I thing it can be done on top of the deltas
> >>>transparently.
> >>
> >>This is what is implemented. All 6 features (zlib and 5 new packet types)
> >>are optional and indepent, backward compatibility is a goal.
> >
> >
> >If we implement delta we should implement it in all packets. So
> >backward compatibility isn't a goal for my patch.
> 
> Why shouldn't backward compatability be a goal?  Shouldn't it be a 
> simple matter to check capabilities before taking the delta of the packet?

I now disabled delta for all packets which are needed till we get the
capabilities.

        Raimar

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