[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2502) new savegames on 1.13.0

["Jason Short via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 04:43, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:

> > Another solution: use an optional capability to see if the new attribute
> > form is supported.  If it's not, just ignore the attribute block.
> 
> When is this test done? New server saving? We can't test if the next
> server which loads the game does support the new format.

True.  So using attributes here can give us backward compatibility (new
servers able to load old games) but not forward compatibility (old
servers able to load new games).

jason