[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4107) Client crash on start.

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:40:51AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:55:07AM -0700, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > 
> > > One way to generalising them, and presumably save some network
> > > traffic, would be to instead mark units as "dirty" when they need
> > > updating on the client, and then actually only do the
> > > send_unit_infos later.
> > 
> > I would rather add a new parameter "bool send_packets" for
> > generic_city_refresh.
> 
> But then you have monstrosity like line 74 of common/city.h

This is city.c. Cleaner would be a callback. Non-set for the client
and set to a send_unit_info for the server. Hmmm I like this idea.

        Raimar

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