[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Extended connect dialog (PR#977)

["imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=977 >

On 04-01-19 you wrote:

>> - Why do the packets you introduce require explicit (non-delta)
>> handling?  Raimar?

> Technically there is no need to non-delta on any packet. It was added
> for the first packets (connect req and the reply) to allow interaction
> with old system. This is now obsolete since we renumbered the packets
> anyway.

> So there is now a reason why the non-delta should stay in place (to
> allow interaction with other delta systems) there is no need to add
> more non-delta packets.

One good reason is traffic shaping, but for this to work the very
first packet would have to be uncompressed.

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