[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3706) append the capstring

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:12:50PM -0800, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 
> here's small patch that allows the server or client to append tokens to the
> capstring at runtime. This allows not only compile options like:
> 
> #ifdef FOO
>   append_capability("foo");
> #endif
> 
> but also things like server commandline options:
> 
> % ser --foo
> 
>   if (is_option("--foo", argv[inx])
>     append_capability("foo");
>   }
> 
> this will be nice for things like gzip compression in the server and server
> authentication.

You know that you can pass the capability string with the environment
variable FREECIV_CAPS?!

        Raimar

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