[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Tidying savegames to pave the way for plug mapgens

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:

> IMHO if we have the infrastructure to start external programs we
> should use this and move all mapgen code out of the server.
> 
> So it looks like you want to make external mapgenerators easy and I
> want the freeciv server code easy. Maybe it is possible that we both
> get what we want. The server starts an external program. Some kind of

This is a very nice idea. The mapgen is a pregame setup operation not 
needed in the game itself. Whether it happens minutes before the game or 
years before back when someone created a scenario is not really relevant 
to the actual game-play engine so does not belong in the actual game-play 
engine.

-MarkM-

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