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

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0800, Reinier Post via RT wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:41:49AM -0800, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:49:19AM -0800, ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
> > > 
> > > Freeciv 1.13.0 GTK 1.2
> > > 
> > > It is not possible to load a 1.14 savegame with Freeciv 1.13.0
> > > On start, the client crashes:
> > > 
> > > civclient: attribute.c:193: unserialize_hash: Assertion `preamble[1] ==
> > > data_length' failed.
> > > Abgebrochen (core dumped)
> > 
> > The attribute format has changed from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0. (it is now
> > 64bit clean) However I can't patch all the 1.13 servers out
> > there. Solutions welcome.
> 
> Should the savegame version number have been incremented?

This would have changed nothing IMHO.

        Raimar

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