[Freeciv-Dev] Re: backward compatability of saved games

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:20:15PM -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> 
> (changing the ruleset breaks savegame compatibility unless you're really 
> careful, in part because the savegame depends unnecessarily on the order 
> of elements in the ruleset).
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm in favor of this idea.  It is really a way to 
> simplify the code at the expense of the user.  However because the code 
> is simpler it will be end up with faster, less buggy development, so the 
> user will benefit as well.

the above point speaks to the need to fix this for the sake of the user,
not just the developer. I am for removing backward compatibility but with
one condition: There needs to be a tool that is available to convert old
incompatibly savegames to new compatible savegames. This will probably a
extremely cutdown server with a modified savegame.c. But this _has_ to be
done in order to justify it.

-mike